Karl Shapiro

Karl Jay Shapiro was born on November 10, in Baltimore, of Russian Jewish family. His father owned a moving and storage company. Shapiro graduated from Forest Park High School in Baltimore and attended the University of

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by Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)

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As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine

And a keel as steel as a root that holds in the sea as she leans,

Leaning and laughing, my warm-hearted beauty, you ride, you ride,

You tack on the curves with parabola speed and a kiss of goodbye,

Like a thoroughbred sloop, my new high-spirited spirit, my kiss.

 As my foot suggests that you leap in the air with your hips of a girl, 
 My finger that praises your wheel and announces your voices of song, 
 Flouncing your skirts, you blueness of joy, you flirt of politeness, 
 You leap, you intelligence, essence of wheelness with silvery nose, 

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