BITING RAY MILLAND'S NOSE

I planned to write about my mother
Who loved poetry -- her talk
Was where quotes met misquotes

And had lurid and glorious offspring.
Or then there are movies;
She saw almost every one
From, say, 1935 to 1944
So if I come now upon the scene

Where Claudette Colbert bites
Ray Milland's nose I hear, from 1940,
The echo of an approving sigh.