Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">ADVICE TO A POOL</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Be a liquid threshold for the dawn</div> <div class="verse">And let night touch you with his back.</div> <div class="verse">The earth-bowl prisoning you, and cold night winds</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Are only pause and rhythm</div> <div class="verse">Within an endless fantasy,</div> <div class="verse">But you, like they, can be</div> <div class="verse">A dream from the loins of a dream,</div> <div class="verse">And build a golden stairway of escape.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">O coolly unperturbed pool,</div> <div class="verse">Slap your ripples in laughter at men,</div> <div class="verse">Who splash you with their lordly hands.</div> <div class="verse">Time is but a phantom dagger</div> <div class="verse">That motion lifts to slay itself.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />