“O city ladies'
Your coats wrapped,
Your hips a possession
Your shoes arched
Your walk is sharp
Your breasts
Pertain to lingerie”
from "Discrete Series", 1934; New Collected Poems, New Directions, 2002, ISBN 0-811-21488-5
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