An Old Workman
Warped... gland-dry... With spine askew And body shrunken into half its space... Well-used as some cracked paving-stone... Bearing on his grimed and pitted front A stamp... as of innumerable feet.
Lola Ridge
Warped... gland-dry... With spine askew And body shrunken into half its space... Well-used as some cracked paving-stone... Bearing on his grimed and pitted front A stamp... as of innumerable feet.
Lola Ridge gives us a brief, unflinching portrait of an elderly laborer whose body has been twisted and dried out by years of hard use. He is warped and gland-dry, his spine bent, his frame collapsed into half its former size.
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