The title of the poem appears on the back cover, "A winter scene is set down in six words, two of which occur twice." The poem on the front cover, doves dhows - distance dhows - drifting doves." According to the Random House Dictionary, a dhow is a sailing vessel used by Arabs on the east African, hte Arabian and the Indian coasts, generally lateen-riggedon two or three masts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.