First published in
The Laurel Review

Roswell, 1947.

1.

A cake of
       soap.

             A Sopwith
       weather balloon.

A logarithm for
            milk.

            Silent and
                    solemn spinster.

        Tarantulas watch
               you like a television.

2.
               A spell
of soapy
        weather.

A milk-
       solemn
             spinster.

You taran-
          tula!

3.

A cake
      of Sopwith

ballast. Balloonist
                logarithms are

       silent and
spinster. Watch

               a television, why
                                don’t you?