Poems

Incident Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee; I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, […]

Saturday’s Child Some are teethed on a silver spoon, With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black racoon– For implements […]

Simon the Cyrenian Speaks He never spoke a word to me, And yet He called my name; He never gave a sign to me, And yet […]

That Bright Chimeric Beast That bright chimeric beast Conceived yet never born, Save in the poet’s breast, The white-flanked unicorn, Never may be shaken From his […]

The Loss of Love All through an empty place I go, And find her not in any room; The candles and the lamps I light Go […]

The Wise Dead men are wisest, for they know How far the roots of flowers go, How long a seed must rot to grow. Dead men […]

To Certain Critics Then call me traitor if you must, Shout reason and default! Say I betray a sacred trust Aching beyond this vault. I’ll bear […]

Yet Do I Marvel I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues […]

Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore Love, light for me Thy ruddiest blazing torch, That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch Of the glad Palace of Virginity, […]

Departure It was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my Love, repent Of how, that July […]