Poems

The Disputants Upon the table in their bowl in violent disarray of yellow sprays, green spikes of leaves, red pointed petals and curled heads of blue […]

The Gentle Man I feel the caress of my own fingers on my own neck as I place my collar and think pityingly of the kind […]

The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren […]

The Horse Show Constantly near you, I never in my entire sixty-four years knew you so well as yesterday or half so well. We talked. you […]

The Hunter In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other’s arms, seem still so that squirrels and colored birds go […]

The Late Singer Here it is spring again and I still a young man! I am late at my singing. The sparrow with the black rain […]

The Lonely Street School is over. It is too hot to walk at ease. At ease in light frocks they walk the streets to while the […]

The Nightingales My shoes as I lean unlacing them stand out upon flat worsted flowers under my feet. Nimbly the shadows of my fingers play unlacing […]

The Poor By constantly tormenting them with reminders of the lice in their children’s hair, the School Physician first brought their hatred down on him. But […]

The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.