Poems

Stars, Songs, Faces Gather the stars if you wish it so. Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years […]

Statistics Napoleon shifted, Restless in the old sarcophagus And murmured to a watchguard: “Who goes there?” “Twenty-one million men, Soldiers, armies, guns, Twenty-one million Afoot, horseback, […]

Street Window The pawn-shop man knows hunger, And how far hunger has eaten the heart Of one who comes with an old keepsake. Here are wedding […]

Style Style–go ahead talking about style. You can tell where a man gets his style just as you can tell where Pavlowa got her legs or […]

Subway Down between the walls of shadow Where the iron laws insist, The hunger voices mock. The worn wayfaring men With the hunched and humble shoulders, […]

Summer Stars Bend low again, night of summer stars. So near you are, sky of summer stars, So near, a long-arm man can pick off stars, […]

Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window Into the blue river hills The red sun runners go And the long sand changes And to-day is a goner And […]

The Answer You have spoken the answer. A child searches far sometimes Into the red dust On a dark rose leaf And so you have gone […]

The Great Hunt I cannot tell you now; When the wind’s drive and whirl Blow me along no longer, And the wind’s a whisper at last– […]

The Hangman at Home What does a hangman think about When he goes home at night from work? When he sits down with his wife and […]