[ilds] Persian Ladies

[slighcl]

I wish I could do so much for you, Bruce.  My intent was simply to say 
'AVE' to Old D on the day of his nativity. 

Beyond that, I can only make associative gestures.  I thought that the 
first poem seemed an interesting admixture of Keats (still unravish'd) 
and Cavafy (the affair that is recollected, not because of its 
consummation, but because it was exquisitely and achingly deferred).  
The second poem was more directly about a birthday--this one for 
Penelope--but also Keatsian.

Mr. D--he stained the silence.

Charles

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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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