Last chancer president makes sure to win before he plays

   like a foxhunter with his fox for the hunt in a cage.   

 

         How the same should a watcher make rare birds appear?

 

 

Why, clockwork gate of bravura movement

   (lent from the suite museum of nightmares) 

      determine the fate of him too long away?

 

 

Close on him as slow as the hours 

   he lay engrossed in the marsh; the marsh

      darkness deepened to colder touch.