DECEMBER 21

Daughters two, comforted sororal
round the wrist, pocketed
once safely harboured
and traveling as in odes up
Father the river, river lining
great incandescent reeds among
incident.

From the swelling ground,
now contented upon it
and assertive in song
to such effects and further
glories.

Abductions of these two,
though, are divined and troublesome
for such settled direction
that once behind, all others
behind
and swept back upon looking
closely even in desperation
confronting a callow new timbre
that is to be there.