Poems

Halsted Street Car Come you, cartoonists, Hang on a strap with me here At seven o’clock in the morning On a Halsted street car. Take your […]

Happiness I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the […]

Harrison Street Court I HEARD a woman’s lips Speaking to a companion Say these words: “A woman what hustles Never keeps nothin’ For all her hustlin’. […]

Haunts There are places I go when I am strong. One is a marsh pool where I used to go with a long-ear hound-dog. One is […]

Hell on the Wabash When country fiddlers held a convention in Danville, the big money went to a barn dance artist who played Turkey in the […]

Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio It’s a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes. The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts. The banjo tickles […]

Hope Is a Tattered Flag Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time. Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in white […]

Horses and Men in Rain Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter’s day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window, And let […]

Hydrangeas Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas turn rust and go soon. Already mid September a line of brown runs over them. One sunset after […]

I Am The People, The Mob I AM the people — the mob–the crowd–the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world […]