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         X.J. Kennedy (1929- )

    Nude Descending A Staircase

First Line: Toe after toe, a snowing flesh,

Nude Descending A Staircase by X.J. (Joseph Charles) Kennedy first appeared in Poetry magazine in 1960. It is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found, for example, in:

  • Hine, Daryl, and Joseph Parisi, eds. The Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.