A Child's Drawing, 1941

A woman ladder leans with her two-year-old boy in her arms. Her arms & legs & hands & feet are thin as crayons. The man ladder is holding his glass of bourbon, he is coming out of the child’s drawing in his old open pajamas— he’s in the war. The sky is blackest crayon-canyon. When does he leave again? When he leaves, I leave.          I like that river the sky.