Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">FIGURE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">Through the turbulent servility</div> <div class="verse">Of a churlish city street</div> <div class="verse">He strides opaquely; nothing in his walk</div> <div class="verse">Resembles an advancing gleam.</div> <div class="verse">His legs are muffled iron</div> <div class="verse">Stubbornly following even thoughts,</div> <div class="verse">His gaily pugnacious head</div> <div class="verse">Seems worried because no dread</div> <div class="verse">Remains for it to slay.</div> <div class="verse">His eyes hold an austerity</div> <div class="verse">That recalls itself while leaping,</div> <div class="verse">And often melts into amusement.</div> <div class="verse">The bent poise of his body</div> <div class="verse">Tells of walls that threw him back,</div> <div class="verse">Only to crumble underneath</div> <div class="verse">The stunned friendliness of his face.</div> <div class="verse">Through the angularly churlish street</div> <div class="verse">He walks, and stoops beneath the captured weight</div> <div class="verse">Of eyes that do not see him.</div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />