Here you will find the Poem Cardinal Ideograms of poet May Swenson
A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. A grass blade or a cut. A question seated. And a proud bird's neck. Shallow mitten for two-fingered hand. Three-cornered hut on one stilt. Sometimes built so the roof gapes. A policeman. Polite. Wearing visored cap. O unrolling, tape of ambiguous length on which is written the mystery of everything curly. A step, detached from its stair. The universe in diagram: A cosmic hourglass. (Note enigmatic shape, absence of any value of origin, how end overlaps beginning.) Unknotted like a shoelace and whipped back and forth, can serve as a model of time. Lorgnette for the right eye. In England or if you are Alice the stem is on the left. A grass blade or a cut companioned by a mouth. Open? Open. Shut? Shut.
