Robert Pinksky "Keyboard"

"A disembodied piano. The headphones allow
The one who touches the keys a solitude
Inside his music; shout and he may not turn:

Image of the soul that thinks to turn from the world."

- Robert Pinksky from "Keyboard"

Randal Jarell from "The Lost World"

"... In my
Talk with the word, in which it tells me what I know
And I tell it, "I know--" how strange that I
Know nothing, and yet it tells me what I know! --
I appreciate the animals, who stand by
Purring. Or else they sit and pant. It's so --
So agreeable. If only people purred and panted!"

- Randal Jarell, from "The Lost World"