Ditty: Moby Dick at Nantucket ; Cricket Hill: Vermont / Ben Belitt -- The Pond ; Political Reflection (loquitur the sparrow in the Zoo) ; Reflections on the seizure of the Suez, and on a proposal to line the banks of that canal with billboard advertisements ; Shells ; The statues in the Public Gardens ; Dialogue ; Midsummer's Day (for my son) ; Writing / Howard Nemerov.