Poems

Fog THE fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Follies Shaken, The blossoms of lilac, And shattered, The atoms of purple. Green dip the leaves, Darker the bark, Longer the shadows. Sheer lines of poplar […]

From the Shore A lone gray bird, Dim-dipping, far-flying, Alone in the shadows and grandeur’s and tumults Of night and the sea And the stars and […]

Gone Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town. Far off Everybody loved her. So we all love a wild girl keeping a hold On a dream […]

Good Night Many ways to say good night. Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes. They […]

Government THE Government–I heard about the Government and I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at it when I saw it. […]

Graceland Tomb of a millionaire, A multi-millionaire, ladies and gentlemen, Place of the dead where they spend every year The usury of twenty-five thousand dollars For […]

Grass PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work– I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them […]

Graves I dreamed one man stood against a thousand, One man damned as a wrongheaded fool. One year and another he walked the streets, And a […]

Gypsy I asked a gypsy pal To imitate an old image And speak old wisdom. She drew in her chin, Made her neck and head The […]