Moorish Conversation, 1832
Don't look now (I said don't look!)
I'll tell you when you can look), just lie back
as if we were--well, as if
we were talking. Try to behave
as if we were by ourselves,
that's why I brought you here in the first place.
The trouble with these rooftop
refuges--the one place in Tangier
you can see a touch of green,
something alive besides men and camels--
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Richard Howard is a poet, translator, and critic who teaches at the University of Houston. He is the poetry editor of the Paris Review.