Muldoon, Paul: Making the Move
Making the Move (English)When Ulysses braved the wine-dark sea Who would bend for no one but himself. Past bad Lord Byron, Raymond Chandler, Past Blaise Pascal, who, bound in hide, Such books as one may think one owns And clatter down into this wider gulf A primus stove, a sleeping-bag, When I was thirteen or fourteen Its boyish length of maple upon maple Were I embarking on that wine-dark sea
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