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Little Vietnam Futurist Poem
She came into my view as vivid as
Somebody on a screen in a movie seen,
Elegant in the focus of my eye.
Birdboned. Quick and light. Not wearing pajamas.
The little run resembling playfulness.
Calling out something, screaming something or other
As if her little mouth was fervently singing,
As if you couldn’t hear what the words could be,
Because of the singing. I had her in my sight.
Other people were there, wearing pajamas,
Streaming out of some hideyhole or other
Into the way that that was how I saw them.
The trees of the kind that grew there establish the place.
We know that way the story of what it was.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2011).
Biography
David Ferry is an acclaimed American poet and translator. Ferry’s translations, which include some of the world's major works of poetry including The Odes of Horace, and both The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, are known for their fluency and grace. In addition to his lauded translations, Ferry is also a prize-winning poet in his own right. His poetic works include Dwelling Places (1993) and Of No Country I Know: New and . . .
Poems by David Ferry
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SUBJECT Social Commentaries, War & Conflict
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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