Poems

Sea Slant On up the sea slant, On up the horizon, The ship limps. The bone of her nose fog-gray, The heart of her sea-strong, She […]

Sea-Wash The sea-wash never ends. The sea-wash repeats, repeats. Only old songs? Is that all the sea knows? Only the old strong songs? Is that all? […]

Sheep Thousands of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheep– one by one going up the hill and over the fence–one by one four-footed pattering up and over–one by […]

Shirt My shirt is a token and symbol, more than a cover for sun and rain, my shirt is a signal, and a teller of souls. […]

Silver Nails A man was crucified. He came to the city a stranger, was accused, and nailed to a cross. He lingered hanging. Laughed at the […]

Sixteen Months On the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams. It is a thin spiral of blue smoke, A morning campfire at a mountain […]

Sketch The shadows of the ships Rock on the crest In the low blue lustre Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide. A long brown […]

Skyscraper By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the city, pour people into it […]

Soiled Dove Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she married a corporation lawyer who picked her from a Ziegfeld chorus. Before […]

Soup I saw a famous man eating soup. I say he was lifting a fat broth Into his mouth with a spoon. His name was in […]