Poems

In The Beginning In the beginning was the three-pointed star, One smile of light across the empty face, One bough of bone across the rooting air, […]

Incarnate Devil Incarnate devil in a talking snake, The central plains of Asia in his garden, In shaping-time the circle stung awake, In shapes of sin […]

January 1939 Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires, Shall the blind horse sing sweeter? Convenient bird and beast lie lodged to suffer The supper […]

Lament When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women), […]

Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound In the throat, burning and turning. All night afloat On the silent sea we […]

Light breaks where no sun shines Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, […]

Love in the Asylum A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds Bolting […]

My Hero Bares His Nerves My hero bares his nerves along my wrist That rules from wrist to shoulder, Unpacks the head that, like a sleepy […]

My World Is Pyramid I Half of the fellow father as he doubles His sea-sucked Adam in the hollow hulk, Half of the fellow mother as […]

Not From This Anger Not from this anger, anticlimax after Refusal struck her loin and the lame flower Bent like a beast to lap the singular […]