Poems

Baby Face White moon comes in on a baby face. The shafts across her bed are flimmering. Out on the land White Moon shines, Shines and […]

Baby Toes There is a blue star, Janet, Fifteen years’ ride from us, If we ride a hundred miles an hour. There is a white star, […]

Baby Vamps Baby vamps, is it harder work than it used to be? Are the new soda parlors worse than the old time saloons? Baby vamps, […]

Back Yard Shine on, O moon of summer. Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak, All silver under your rain to-night. An Italian boy […]

Balloon Faces The Balloons hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens. They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and red, they float their […]

Baltic Fog Notes Seven days all fog, all mist, and the turbines pounding through high seas. I was a plaything, a rat’s neck in the teeth […]

Band Concert Band concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms. And gigglers, God […]

Bas-Relief Five geese deploy mysteriously. Onward proudly with flagstaffs, Hearses with silver bugles, Bushes of plum-blossoms dropping For ten mystic web-feet– Each his own drum-major, Each […]

Basket speak, sir, and be wise. Speak choosing your words, sir, like an old woman over a bushel of apples.

Bath A man saw the whole world as a grinning skull and cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all faces. Nothing counts. Everything is […]