Quotation by Karl Shapiro

But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.
Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. Auto Wreck (l. 35–38). . .

New & Selected Poems, 1940–1986 [Karl Shapiro]. (1987) University of Chicago Press.
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