WATTEAU PANELS
by: Royall Snow
I. A MELODY WITH SOMBRE
CHORDS
 IERROT draws
aside the willows
- As a curtain,
- And naïve Columbine steps through.
- In the moonlight--
- Like the twinkling of silver minnows
- The gurgling brook winks at Pierrot.
- He had come there before.
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- II. DANSE MACABRE
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- From a hidden orchestra
- Drifts in blurred melody the valse hesitation
- A dancer presses his partner's hand
- Commandingly.
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- III. ACQUIESCENCE
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- "No," whispers the woman
- And turns her head
- So that the moonlight falls on her bare throat.
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"Watteau Panels" is reprinted
from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1921. |
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