The Actresses of NightAuthor(s): Frank StanfordSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1972), p. 24Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157912 .

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THE ACTRESSES OF NIGHT

black night the plank I am

forced to walk night the girl undressing I see by chance

by the window I am falling and it is like being played with

by older girls it is

the black stockings the young widow takes off

in front of you night takes off her panties in the dark

and they smell like old coves

1961

THE PARAMOUR

don t tell me I know

the bedrooms like one

hundred rivers

that disappear underground I know the solitary couches

with the inscriptions of mistresses

written in blood

Frank Stanford 1961

24 Frank Stanford

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