LATER

I went to the place where my youth took birth

In the slow, round kiss of an amorous girl,

When sonnets and lace were the measure of earth,

When death was forgotten and life was a whirl.

I addled my brain with the memories flown

Of Heatherby Kaiser and Muriel Moore;

I thought of the women and men I had known,—

The glittering eyes and the bolt on the door—