Poems

Sultry Night It drizzled, but not even grasses Would bend within the bag of storm; Dust only gulped its rain in pellets, The iron roof-in powder […]

The garden scatters burnt-up beetles… The garden scatters burnt-up beetles Like brazen ash, from braziers burst. I witness, by my lighted candle, A newly blossomed universe. […]

The Girl By a cliff a golden cloud once lingered; On his breast it slept… From the swing, from the garden, helter-skelter, A twig runs up […]

The Linden Avenue A house of unimagined beauty Is set in parkland, cool and dark; Gates with an arch; then meadows, hillocks, And oats and woods […]

The patient watches The patient watches. Six days long In frenzy blizzards rave relentlessly, Roll over rooftops, roar along, Brace, rage, and fall, collapsing senselessly. In […]

The Patient’s Sweater A life of its own and a long one is led By this penguin, with nothing to do with the breast- The wingless […]

The Road Down into the ravine, then forward Up the embankment to the top, The ribbon of the road runs snaking Through wood and field without […]

The shiv’ring piano, foaming at the mouth The shiv’ring piano, foaming at the mouth, Will wrench you by its ravings, discompose you. “My darling,” you will […]

The spring-it had simply been you The spring-it had simply been you, And so, to a certain extent, The summer; but autumn-this scandalous blue Of wallpaper? […]

The Swifts The swifts have no strength any more to retain, To check the light-blue evening coolness. It burst from their breasts, from their throats, under […]