THREE TEXTUAL POEMS by ALEXANDER JORGENSEN



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Sudder's Hotel Paragon

for Matina Stamatakis

     little mouse,

with whom've shared (my) room,

leapt, said,

           a meter!

                     onto a...soft, a...

and then!-

Temple Roof

at A Mazar Sharif, Kolkata

All kinds. Big kinds.

Little sorts. And you

see others? Clerics,

in downpour, gone

running? Geese! Ducks!

How nonchalant

they're in rain?--True,

apart from feathers,

all-weather, flat-footed,

they do've their reasons.

Artemis to Apollo

for K-

Last, pulpy

piece (empha-

sizing na-

kedness)

in the mouth.--