Poems

Avowal Whatever alien fruits and changeling faces And pleasances of mutable perfume The flambeaux of the senses shall illume Amid the night-furled labyrinthine spaces, In lives […]

Las Alquerjas Perdidas/Lost Granges Las Alquerjas Perdidas Amo los campos huertos, los vergeles que las selvas han invadido y las hierbas han recogido a abrir sus […]

To George Sterling And I too found the seaward way —Venus Letalis. Deep are the chasmal years and lustrums long Since, following that dark Venus of […]

A Memory of June When June comes dancing o’er the death of May, With scarlet roses tinting her green breast, And mating thrushes ushering in her […]

A Prayer ‘Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling; I stumble as I fare along Earth’s way; keep me from falling. Mine […]

A Red Flower Your lips are like a southern lily red, Wet with the soft rain-kisses of the night, In which the brown bee buries deep […]

Absence Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool, Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool. Your kisses fell sharp on […]

Adolescence There was a time when in late afternoon The four-o’clocks would fold up at day’s close Pink-white in prayer, and ‘neath the floating moon I […]

Africa The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the world was young in pregnant […]

After the Winter Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the […]