Poems

Lotus Hurt by the Cold How many times, like lotus lilies risen Upon the surface of a river, there Have risen floating on my blood the […]

Lui Et Elle She is large and matronly And rather dirty, A little sardonic-looking, as if domesticity had driven her to it. Though what she does, […]

Malade The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window The tassel of the blind swings gently, tapping the pane, As […]

Mating Round clouds roll in the arms of the wind, The round earth rolls in a clasp of blue sky, And see, where the budding hazels […]

Meeting Among the Mountains The little pansies by the road have turned Away their purple faces and their gold, And evening has taken all the bees […]

Monologue of a Mother This is the last of all, this is the last! I must hold my hands, and turn my face to the fire, […]

Mystery Now I am all One bowl of kisses, Such as the tall Slim votaresses Of Egypt filled For a God’s excesses. I lift to you […]

New Year’s Eve There are only two things now, The great black night scooped out And this fireglow. This fireglow, the core, And we the two […]

Nothing To Save There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a […]

Patience A wind comes from the north Blowing little flocks of birds Like spray across the town, And a train, roaring forth, Rushes stampeding down With […]