Poems

Waiting Today I will let the old boat stand Where the sweep of the harbor tide comes in To the pulse of a far, deep-steady sway. […]

Wars In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet. In the new wars hum of motors and the tread of rubber […]

White Shoulders Your white shoulders I remember And your shrug of laughter. Low laughter Shaken slow From your white shoulders.

Whitelight Your whitelight flashes the frost to-night Moon of the purple and silent west. Remember me one of your lovers of dreams.

Who Am I? My head knocks against the stars. My feet are on the hilltops. My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life. […]

Window Night from a railroad car window Is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light.

Woman with a Past There was a woman tore off a red velvet gown And slashed the white skin of her right shoulder And a crimson […]

Women Washing their Hair They have painted and sung the women washing their hair, and the plaits and strands in the sun, and the golden combs […]

Work Gangs Box cars run by a mile long. And I wonder what they say to each other When they stop a mile long on a […]

Working Girls The working girls in the morning are going to work– long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and factories, thousands with little […]