Poems

A Tall Man The mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth. The head of this man is a gaunt strong head. The jaws of […]

A Teamster’s Farewell Sobs En Route to a Penitentiary Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs, The sun coming on […]

Accomplished Facts Every year Emily Dickinson sent one friend the first arbutus bud in her garden. In a last will and testament Andrew Jackson remembered a […]

Adelaide Crapsey Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled field of brown-eyed Susans dripping yellow leaves in July, I read your heart in a book. […]

Alix The mare Alix breaks the world’s trotting record one day. I see her heels flash down the dust of an Illinois race track on a […]

All Day Long All day long in fog and wind, The waves have flung their beating crests Against the palisades of adamant. My boy, he went […]

Alley Rats They were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.” And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal guise […]

Always the Mob Jesus emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off […]

Among the Red Guns Among the red guns, In the hearts of soldiers Running free blood In the long, long campaign: Dreams go on. Among the […]

An Electric Sign Goes Dark Poland, France, Judea ran in her veins, Singing to Paris for bread, singing to Gotham in a fizz at the pop […]