Apollinaire Enameled

 1.
An ice covered
skyrocket

an ocean whale
in clover

One makes progress
to a deeper blue

The other rolls
about in flowers,

fields of flowers
next to a brook

which waters run
clear along mossy

banks, and from
the gathering twilight of

the forest of tall
pines the repetitive

but no less interesting
music of the mill,

the old mill as
its great water-wheel

turns to the
accompaniment of August bees.


 2.
Soon the undulating
country gives way

to the black and
white balance

and soothing
equanimity of

tar pits and bleached
bone and white sand.

He did not have
any place in

particular in mind,
but perhaps the

moose recalls a
certain childhood

moment passing
in the heat

of a fleeting
afternoon redolent

of the fresh
asphalt of the

newly laid road
under progress

still  as yellow
trucks and men

move in a hubbub
up the street

 
 3.
-- An early cartoon
was it?  A moose

has recovered itself
from a pool of bitter chocolate

as it blinks
dumbly at us

endless seems to
flow the chocolate

from its enormous
antlers and over

its great back
and down its legs

and over the white
sand fading before

the numbers and
sprocket holes . . .