Triptych

THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF SY KAHN: Triptych

C 0 N T E N T S:

by Sy Kahn
Slender Arcs
Convicts
A Song for the Chorus
Rites
Giraffes
A Bluddlefilth: Joyce's Battlefield
Expatriates: Le Lavandou, 1959
Nancy in the Garden

by Paul Ramsey, Jr.
Art
Entrance
The Correct Answer to an Old Question
A Gift
Flame
Old Cemetery
Four Journeys
In Praise of Marriage

by Jane Taylor
The Dime-Store's Mynah
Conspiracy
Crows
Mountain Reservoir
March Poem
"Landscape with Hagar and the Angel"
Library of Congress Fountain
Picture of My Father

TRIPTYCH
poems by
Sy Kahn
Paul Ramsey, Jr.
Jane Taylor
Raymond College Press
Stockton, California, 1964

The three poets in this book were members of the English Faculty at Raymond College, the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California. Paul Ramsey was born in 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. He studied at the University of Chattanooga, the University of North Carolina, and earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. Jane Taylor was born in 1939 in Richmond, Virginia. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and the University of North Carolina.

GIRAFFES
by Sy Kahn

Finger painted,
They stand in the field
On long-pronged legs
As if thrust there.
They airily feed,
Slightly swaying,
Like hammer-headed flowers.

Bizarre they are,
Built silent and high,
Ornaments against the sky.
Ears like leaves
To hear the silken
Brushing of the clouds.