Poems

Evensong I In the pale mauve twilight, streaked with orange, Exquisitely sweet,– She leaned upon her balcony and looked across the street; And across the huddled […]

Hatteras Calling Southeast, and storm, and every weather vane shivers and moans upon its dripping pin, ragged on chimneys the cloud whips, the rain howls at […]

Improvisations: Light and Snow I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she knows. How […]

Miracles Twilight is spacious, near things in it seem far, And distant things seem near. Now in the green west hangs a yellow star. And now […]

Morning Song Of Senlin It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning When the light drips through the shutters like the dew, I arise, I […]

Music I Heard Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now that I am […]

Nocturne Of Remembered Spring I. Moonlight silvers the tops of trees, Moonlight whitens the lilac shadowed wall And through the evening fall, Clearly, as if through […]

Red Is The Color Of Blood Red is the color of blood, and I will seek it: I have sought it in the grass. It is […]

Senlin: His Cloudy Destiny 1 Senlin sat before us and we heard him. He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him. Was he small, […]

Senlin: His Dark Origins 1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is he small, […]