Orioles still sing, and the leaves fall –

Li Bo is stepping from a boat.
Edward Thomas tends to brood, but

Ho Xuan Hong has done with that.
Emily Dickinson leaves punctuation, society,

Alone; what are they – to love?
Ap Gwilym is off to see someone –

Sappho scintillates, while Catullus coruscates.
Rilke tweaks his verbs to turn

The point around; nouns need not apply.
Graves is in love magnificently,

But you wonder what the woman thinks.
And Vallejo has all the answers,

But only tells you the half of it.