One Drop of Wine: And in the Hanging Gardens, by Conrad Aiken
td Whittle
Posted on January 24th, 2012
And in the hanging gardens there is rain
From midnight until one, striking the leaves
And bells of flowers, and stroking boles of planes,
And drawing slow arpeggios over pools,
And stretching strings of sound from eaves to ferns.
The princess reads. The knave of diamonds sleeps.
The king is drunk, and flings a golden goblet
Down from the turret window (curtained with rain)
Into the lilacs.
Categories: One Drop of Wine: our poetry appreciation series

