Poems

Jaws Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of death. It was the first week in August, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen. I was listening, you […]

Joy Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands And take it when it runs by, As the Apache dancer Clutches his woman. I have […]

June Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia, Scarlet Chinese talker of summer. Two petals of crabapple blossom blow fallen in Paula’s hair, […]

Jungheimer’s In western fields of corn and northern timber lands, They talk about me, a saloon with a soul, The soft red lights, the long curving […]

Killers I am singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, Held where he cannot move: […]

Kin Brother, I am fire Surging under the ocean floor. I shall never meet you, brother– Not for years, anyhow; Maybe thousands of years, brother. Then […]

Languages THERE are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance. It is a river, […]

Last Answers I wrote a poem on the mist And a woman asked me what I meant by it. I had thought till then only of […]

Laughing Corn There was a high majestic fooling Day before yesterday in the yellow corn. And day after to-morrow in the yellow corn There will be […]

Lawyer When the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct and cross examinations, hot clashes of lawyers and cool decisions of the […]