Poems

Medallion Luini in porcelain! The grand piano Utters a profane Protest with her clear soprano. The sleek head emerges From the gold-yellow frock As Anadyomene in […]

Meditatio When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious […]

Nicotine Hymn to the Dope Goddess of the murmuring courts, Nicotine, my Nicotine, Houri of the mystic sports, trailing-robed in gabardine, Gliding where the breath hath […]

Portrait d’une Femme Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left you this or […]

Quies This is another of our ancient loves. Pass and be silent, Rullus, for the day Hath lacked a something since this lady passed; Hath lacked […]

Salutation O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun, I have seen them with untidy families, I […]

Sestina: Altaforte Loquitur: En Bertrans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife. Eccovi! Judge ye! Have […]

Silet When I behold how black, immortal ink Drips from my deathless pen – ah, well-away! Why should we stop at all for what I think? […]

Song Love thou thy dream All base love scorning, Love thou the wind And here take warning That dreams alone can truly be, For ’tis in […]

Song in the Manner of Housman O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as […]