Poems

Mingus At The Showplace I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen and so I swung into action and wrote a poem and it was […]

No Return I like divorce. I love to compose letters of resignation; now and then I send one in and leave in a lemon- hued Huff […]

On The Porch At The Frost Place, Franconia, N. H. So here the great man stood, fermenting malice and poems we have to be nearly as […]

Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) The lump of coal my parents teased I’d find in my Christmas stocking turned out each year to […]

The Blues What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces to learn by heart, […]

A Death Song What cometh here from west to east awending? And who are these, the marchers stern and slow? We bear the message that the […]

A Good Knight In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind’s song, […]

Atalanta’s Race Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow but seldom bent, Now […]

Autumn Laden Autumn here I stand Worn of heart, and weak of hand: Nought but rest seems good to me, Speak the word that sets me […]

Day I am Day; I bring again Life and glory, Love and pain: Awake, arise! from death to death Through me the World’s tale quickeneth.