Poems

Between Two Hills Between two hills The old town stands. The houses loom And the roofs and trees And the dusk and the dark, The damp […]

Blacklisted Why shall I keep the old name? What is a name anywhere anyway? A name is a cheap thing all fathers and mothers leave each […]

Blue Island Intersection Six streets come together here. They feed people and wagons into the center. In and out all day horses with thoughts of nose-bags, […]

Bones Sling me under the sea. Pack me down in the salt and wet. No farmer’s plow shall touch my bones. No Hamlet hold my jaws […]

Bricklayer Love I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store. […]

Bringers Cover me over In dusk and dust and dreams. Cover me over And leave me alone. Cover me over, You tireless, great. Hear me and […]

Broadway I shall never forget you, Broadway Your golden and calling lights. I’ll remember you long, Tall-walled river of rush and play. Hearts that know you […]

Broken Tabernacles Have I broken the smaller tabernacles, O Lord? And in the destruction of these set up the greater and massive, the everlasting tabernacles? I […]

Bronzes I THE bronze General Grant riding a bronze horse in Linc- oln Park Shrivels in the sun by day when the motor cars whirr by […]

Buttons I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising in front of the newspaper office. Buttons–red and yellow buttons–blue and black buttons– are […]