Poems

On a Proposed Trip South They tell me on the morrow I must leave This winter eyrie for a southern flight And truth to tell I […]

On Gay Wallpaper The green-blue ground is ruled with silver lines to say the sun is shining And on this moral sea of grass or dreams […]

Overture to a Dance of Locomotives Men with picked voices chant the names of cities in a huge gallery: promises that pull through descending stairways to […]

Pastoral The little sparrows hop ingenuously about the pavement quarreling with sharp voices over those things that interest them. But we who are wiser shut ourselves […]

Peace on Earth The Archer is wake! The Swan is flying! Gold against blue An Arrow is lying. There is hunting in heaven– Sleep safe till […]

Play Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master.

Poem (As the cat) As the cat climbed over the top of the jamcloset first the right forefoot carefully then the hind stepped down into the […]

Portrait of a Lady Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady’s slipper. Your knees are […]

Primrose Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! It is not a color. It is summer! It is the wind on a willow, the lap of waves, the shadow […]

Proletarian Poet A big young bareheaded woman in an apron Her hair slicked back standing on the street One stockinged foot toeing the sidewalk Her shoe […]