More beautiful than anything in this world.
At San Biagio, in the most intense roomBeneath a pile of corpses, lying massed
Looms in the air, deliberate and slow,In white, in paint too representative
Are muffled into silence that refusesArchangel Winter, darkness on his back
Side of the painting, the world of that wise, white,To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
Along the walls are only empty niches,will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.
The winged winds, captives of that age-old foeIII. Earliest Recorded Northern Explorers: The Greeks and the Vikings
Out of the road into a way acrossGreen lilac buds appear that won't survive
Beneath the snowflakes I notice façadesOver the chilly dale.
Silence, are in his hand—birds in a snare;In Winter Haven, the ballplayers are stretching
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