Poems

Poems Done On A Late Night Car I. CHICKENS I am The Great White Way of the city: When you ask what is my desire, I […]

Pool Out of the fire Came a man sunken To less than cinders, A tea-cup of ashes or so. And I, The gold in the house, […]

Poppies She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in. In a loose white gown she walks and a new child tugs at cords in […]

Population Drifts New-mown hay smell and wind of the plain made her a woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in them and her […]

Prairie Waters By Night Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song joining a litany of running water–sheer waters showing the russet of old […]

Prayers of Steel Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me […]

Primer Lesson Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long […]

Ready to Kill TEN minutes now I have been looking at this. I have gone by here before and wondered about it. This is the bronze […]

River Roads Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw. They have been swimming in midnights of coal mines somewhere. Let ’em hawk their […]

Salvage Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year between Brussels and Paris. And, William Morris, when I read your old chapter on the […]