Quotation by Karl Shapiro

I see slip to the curb the long machines
Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette
Shellacked with silk and light
The hard legs of our women.
Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. The Dome of Sunday (l. 17–20). . .

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