"Kaleidoscopics"
Gondolas with white freightage
Passed,
And muted barcaroles
Destroyed old houses.
The iridescent plush rope sways
With the rhythm
Of an old canzone of Genoa
He died.
Let us dance elegant fandangos
In blues and golds,
And consort
With blinder things than parchment bats
To gather dripping garlands
Of mottled toadstools
To show the hate we loved him with.
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Ferdinand Reyher's poem "Kaleidoscopics" was published in the 1916 Others anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below: