Poems

The Children Look At The Parents We being so hidden from those who Have quietly borne and fed us, How can we answer civilly Their innocent […]

The Man In The Bowler Hat I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man: The man who sat on your right in the morning train: The man […]

To Be Blind Is it sounds converging, Sounds nearing, Infringement, impingement, Impact, contact With surfaces of the sounds Or surfaces without the sounds: Diagrams, skeletal, strange? […]

Tube Station The tube lift mounts, sap in a stem, And blossoms its load, a black, untidy rose. The fountain of the escalator curls at the […]

Unlyric Love Song It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first: To offer you now at last my least and my worst: […]

Wet City Night Light drunkenly reels into shadow; Blurs, slurs uneasily; Slides off the eyeballs: The segments shatter. Tree-branches cut arc-light in ragged Fluttering wet strips. […]

Butte How oft my mind reverts to thee, Thou city of the tunneled hills; Thy lofty towers I still can see, Thy smoke descending silently Till […]

Lonesome Hollow On beyond the jumping-off place, Where the highway turneth south, You will find a yawning hollow And you’ll dash into its mouth. Just beyond […]

Silent Worship Fade away each wild emotion; Every care and sorrow cease; Breathing silent, calm devotion Rest each soul in perfect peace. Linked with Christ in […]

The Daguerreotype A precious little relic A gift from heart to heart, Resemblance of a form angelic Whose lights and shades impart Emotions felt of old, […]