“Because he swings so neatly through the trees,”

Because he swings so neatly through the trees,
An ape feels natural in the word trapeze.

Copyright Credit: Richard Wilbur, “Because he swings so neatly through the trees” from The Pig in the Spigot. Copyright © 2000 by Richard Wilbur. Reprinted with the permission of Voyager Books.
Source: The Pig in the Spigot (2004)