Tennessee Williams, poet after Hart Crane and Constantine Cavafy’s hearts

WINTER SMOKE IS BLUE AND BITTER

(from Androgyne, Mon Amour)

Winter smoke is blue and bitter:
women comfort you in winter.

Scent of thyme is cool and tender:
girls are music to remember.

Men are made of rock and thunder:
threat of storm to labour under.

Cypress woods are demon-dark:
boys are fox-teeth in your heart.

– Tennessee Williams, Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol, 1967