Notes About The Poem

Lantern is a half American cinquain

L Is For Lantern In Sequence

THE WIFE(alma mahler)
Of
Mahler,
Gropius
Franz Werfel-
filled life with her
song-
she
gave Klimt
her first kiss-
but like a Strauss
waltz
her
affairs
of the heart--
never lasted
long.
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