Poems

Earth SAD is my lot; among the shining spheres Wheeling, I weave incessant day and night, And ever, in my never-ending flight, Add woes to woes, […]

The Master-Chord LIKE a musician that with flying finger Startles the voice of some new instrument, And, though he know that in one string are blent […]

To La Sansoeur I KNOW not how to call you light, Since I myself was lighter; Nor can you blame my changing plight Who were the […]

A Celebration A middle-northern March, now as always– gusts from the South broken against cold winds– but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a […]

A Goodnight Go to sleep–though of course you will not– to tideless waves thundering slantwise against strong embankments, rattle and swish of spray dashed thirty feet […]

A Sort of a Song Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to […]

Approach of Winter The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail […]

Après le Bain I gotta buy me a new girdle. (I’ll buy you one) O.K. (I wish you’d wig- gle that way for me, I’d be […]

April If you had come away with me into another state we had been quiet together. But there the sun coming up out of the nothing […]

Arrival And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom– feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen […]