This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984.
The Woods
Two years we spent
down there, in a quaint
outbuilding bright with recent paint.
A green retreat,
secluded and sedate,
part of a once great estate,
it watched our old
bone-shaker as it growled
with guests and groceries through heat and cold,
and heard you tocsin
meal-times with a spoon
while I sat working in the sun.
Above the yard
an old clock had expired
the night Lenin arrived in Petrograd.
Bourbons and Romanovs
...
down there, in a quaint
outbuilding bright with recent paint.
A green retreat,
secluded and sedate,
part of a once great estate,
it watched our old
bone-shaker as it growled
with guests and groceries through heat and cold,
and heard you tocsin
meal-times with a spoon
while I sat working in the sun.
Above the yard
an old clock had expired
the night Lenin arrived in Petrograd.
Bourbons and Romanovs
...
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