The Encounter

Ezra Pound


All the while they were talking the new morality
Her eyes explored me.
And when I rose to go
Her fingers were like the tissue
Of a Japanese paper napkin.


  • For more on Pound, see Ferlinghetti's "Baseball Canto".
  • For more on the term "gaze," click here.
  • See Wallace Stevens's "Gray Room" for a comparable poem.


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