Poems

Anywhere Out of the World Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds. One would like to suffer opposite […]

Autumn Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, And all of summer’s stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs […]

Beacons Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth, Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love, But where life throngs and seethes without cease Like the […]

Beauty Conceive me as a dream of stone: my breast, where mortals come to grief, is made to prompt all poets’ love, mute and noble as […]

Benediction When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror At God’s pity, cries out […]

Cats Fevered lovers and austere thinkers Love equally, in their ripe season Cats powerful and gentle, pride of the house Like them they feel the cold, […]

Composure (The speaker addresses himself) Lighten up, you bitch, stop being so bitter. You lobbied for night. It falls. Right here. The air, a haziness, wimples […]

Correspondences Nature is a temple whose living colonnades Breathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs; Man wanders among symbols in those glades Where all things […]

Crowds It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an art; and only he can relish a […]

De Profundis Clamavi Have pity, You alone whom I adore From down this black pit where my heart is sped, A sombre universe ringed round with […]