Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">YOUNG WOMAN</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">So we have a face</div> <div class="verse">Cupped by tender insolences,</div> <div class="verse">Half repenting insolences</div> <div class="verse">Teasing their own angers.</div> <div class="verse">Then, a tense exuberance</div> <div class="verse">Brushes them away</div> <div class="verse">And burns a humbly erect</div> <div class="verse">Queen upon her face.</div> <div class="verse">This happens in the space</div> <div class="verse">Between a frown and indecision.</div> <div class="verse">Her face becomes forlornly wild,</div> <div class="verse">And a beggarly impatience</div> <div class="verse">Hovers into furtive shame.</div> <div class="verse">All the supplely intricate flame</div> <div class="verse">Vanishes, and leaves no mark.</div> <div class="verse">Her eyes are violently dark</div> <div class="verse">With a hopeless waiting;</div> <div class="verse">Her lips are isolated tatters&mdash;</div> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</SPAN></span> <div class="verse">All that is left of shattered recreating.</div> <div class="verse">Then, as quickly as she fled,</div> <div class="verse">The humble queen returns.</div> <div class="verse">Staring and unappeased</div> <div class="verse">She eyes her crumpled hands.</div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />