How you lie,

So strangely still, unmoved so utterly

Dear yet, but oh a little alien too.

IN A MUSEUM

Here stillness sounds like echoes in a tomb.

The light falls cold upon these antique toys

Whereby men sought to turn the scales of doom:

Jade gods, a ritual of rigid boys.

Warm blood was spent for this unwindowed stone

Tinct with the painted pleasures of the dead;