“Back and forth, back and forth
goes the tock, tock, tock
of the orange, bland ambassadorial
face of the moon
on the grandfather clock.’’
— “Fall 1961,’’ by Robert Lowell (1917-1977), among New England’s most famous poets since Robert Frost.
“Back and forth, back and forth
goes the tock, tock, tock
of the orange, bland ambassadorial
face of the moon
on the grandfather clock.’’
— “Fall 1961,’’ by Robert Lowell (1917-1977), among New England’s most famous poets since Robert Frost.