Black Slippers: Bellotti
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
At the table beyond us
With her little suede slippers off,
With her white-stocking'd feet
Carefully kept from the floor by a napkin,
She converses:
'Connaissez-vous Ostende?'
The gurgling Italian lady on the other side of the
restaurant
Replies with a certain hauteur,
But I await with patience,
To see how Celestine will re-enter her slippers.
She re-enters them with a groan.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 65 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
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