September’s Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets– Crows– and Retros… And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming -

897 How fortunate the Grave— All Prizes to obtain— Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain.

909 I make His Crescent fill or lack— His Nature is at Full Or Quarter—as I signify— His Tides—do I control—

237 I think just how my shape will ris… When I shall be “forgiven”— Till Hair—and Eyes—and timid Hea… Are out of sight—in Heaven—

868 They ask but our Delight— The Darlings of the Soil And grant us all their Countenanc… For a penurious smile.

914 I cannot be ashamed Because I cannot see The love you offer— Magnitude

Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place - Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face - All of Evening softly lit

636 The Way I read a Letter’s’—this’… ’Tis first’—I lock the Door’— And push it with my fingers’—next’… For transport it be sure’—

I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…

464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—

979 This Merit hath the worst— It cannot be again— When Fate hath taunted last And thrown Her furthest Stone—

Warm in her Hand these accents li… While faithful and afar The Grace so awkward for her sake Its fond subjection wear -

If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spum, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year,

They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…