Poems

I hang limp on the Creator’s pen I hang limp on the Creator’s pen Like a large drop of lilac gloss-paint. Underneath are dykes’ secrets; the […]

I would go home again—to rooms… I would go home again—to rooms With sadness large at eventide, Go in, take off my overcoat, And in the […]

Imitators A boat came in; the cliff was baked; The noisy boat-chain fell and clanked on The sand-an iron rattle-snake, A rattling rust among the plankton. […]

Improvisation I fed out of my hand a flock of keys To clapping of wings and shrill cries in flight. Sleeves up, arms out, on tiptoe […]

In everything I seek to grasp… In everything I seek to grasp The fundamental: The daily choice, the daily task, The sentimental. To plumb the essence […]

In Hospital They stood, almost blocking the pavement, As though at a window display; The stretcher was pushed in position, The ambulance started away. Past porches […]

In Memory of Marina Tsvetaeva Dismal day, with the weather inclement. Inconsolably rivulets run Down the porch in front of the doorway; Through my wide-open windows […]

Intoxication Under osiers with ivy ingrown We are trying to hide from bad weather. I am clasping your arms in my own, In one cloak we […]

It is not seemly to be famous… It is not seemly to be famous: Celebrity does not exalt; There is no need to hoard your writings […]

It’s spring, I leave a street where poplars… It’s spring, I leave a street where poplars are astonished, Where distance is alarmed and the house fears […]