E2 C [read = E Squared C] Poem by Frank Avon

found (more or less)
in POEMS 1923-1954
(first edition)



War (to hymn) Was
The Enormous Room:
BA - BOOM

merely a mistake
a French de camp
t'Adore [read ta-dor-ray]

but first came Harvard
and Harvard once more:
then an ambulance corps

LA DOOR TA - DOOR
lit(erary) forms
more(and) more

'Him' performed
at Provincetown Playhouse,
then 'Santa Claus' in '46

a ballet (- tutu) [read minus tutu]
Uncle 'Tom'
(BA - BOOM BA - BOOM)

CIOPW: pictures
in charcoal, ink, oil,
pencil, water water COLOR

a trip to Russia
'Anthropos -
the future of art'

then - kcab to Harvard -
Charles Eliot Norton
'i six nonlectures'

but all ways and
above ways
word plays:

'Tulips and Chimneys'
'&'
'XLI Poems'

'is 5'
'W ViVa'
'no thanks'

'1 x 1'
'XAIPE'
New and Collected.

(a permanent place among the great
nothing less than spectacular
one of the inventors of our time)

hymn
(A-hem)
Him

{the photograph
on the front of this jacket
was taken by Marion More House}