Monkeys

Two little creatures

with faces the size of

a pair of pennies

are clasping each other

"Ah do not leave me"

One says to the other

in the high monkey -

cage in the beast shop

there are no people

to gape at them now

for people are loth

peer in the dimness

have they not builded

streets and playhouses

sky sign and bars

to lose the lonlieness

shaking the hearts

of the two little monkeys

Yes,but who watches

the penny small faces

can hear the voices

"Ah do not leave me

suck i wil give you

warmth and clasping

and if you slip from

this beam can never

find you again

Dim is the evening

and chill is the weather

there drawn from their coloured

hemisphere

the apes lilliputian

with faces the size of

a pair of pennies

and voices as low as

the flow of my blood.