The hamlet of Andersonville
drowses nearby, and a dusty yellow memorial bravely commemorates Henry Wirz, hanged after the war for what happened there.
Or at siesta time my still body
drowses and my imagination wanders free among the craziest daydreams.
A bull wakes and
drowses under a single plane tree:
The guard, a negro eunuch,
drowses on his feet, solid and unmoved.
She prepares a meal and
drowses while the water heats up before bathing, because 'Visits to the cemetery, doctor, and to relatives, to stay, always demanded a bath.' No explanation is offered for why a cemetery-visit should require this.
By day, the Los Angeles Theatre Center
drowses on its columns, looking as sedate as the Security National Bank its builders intended back in 1916 - and as dead as it was pronounced four years ago.
A locking mechanism above a flamingo's foot keeps its leg from collapsing as the bird
drowses, and the same exquisite sense of balance that lets a wading bird hold its head absolutely level while stalking through a marsh during the day prevents it from toppling over at night.
The second book, a burlesque of the account of funeral games for Anchises in Vergil's Aeneid, depicts Cibber 's coronation; it is celebrated with games and contests and, as everyone
drowses off to sleep, poetry - reading.
I spent it in a house at Hancock Point, Maine, a secluded promontory of land that
drowses under bright sunshine and watches the light burst and stray out over Frenchman's Bay.
/ Nestled in the pillows where the hair is spread / the warmer, browner flesh
drowses into its slow collapse." This, believe it or not, is a single-family dwelling poem: it has a garage.
The hunter Endymion, his ankles delicately crossed,
drowses in a majestic crimson robe of an amplitude impractical for a hue and cry.
So I help her up again, six more times, her jaw set, her neck stiff as she wills dead feet to rise and step, till all's spent, and she lets me lift her into bed, then
drowses off ...
