Poems

July A ghost is roaming through the building, And shadows in the attic browse; Persistently intent on mischief A goblin roams about the house. He gets […]

Lessons of English When Desdemona sang a ditty- In her last hours among the living- It wasn’t love that she lamented, And not her star-she mourned […]

Marburg I quivered. I flared up, and then was extinguished. I shook. I had made a proposal – but late, Too late. I was scared, and […]

March The sun is hotter than the top ledge in a steam bath; The ravine, crazed, is rampaging below. Spring — that corn-fed, husky milkmaid — […]

Margarita Sundering the bushes like a snare, More violet than Margarita’s tight-pressed lips, More passionate than Margarita’s white-eyed stare, The nightingale glowed, royally throbbed and trilled. […]

Mary Magdalene I As soon as night descends, we meet. Remorse my memories releases. The demons of the past compete, And draw and tear my heart […]

Mary Magdalene II People clean their homes before the feast. Stepping from the bustle of the street I go down before Thee on my knees And […]

Meeting The snow will dust the roadway, And load the roofs still more. I’ll stretch my legs a little: You’re there outside the door. Autumn, not […]

Music The block of flats loomed towerlike. Two sweating athletes, human telpher, Were carrying up narrow stairs, As though a bell onto a belfry, As to […]

My desk is not so wide that I might lean My desk is not so wide that I might lean Against the edge and reach out […]