Poems

Phallus This was the gods’ god, The leashed divinity, Divine divining rod And Me within the me. By mindlight tower and tree Its shadow on the […]

Standardization When, darkly brooding on this Modern Age, The journalist with his marketable woes Fills up once more the inevitable page Of fatuous, flatulent, Sunday-paper prose; […]

Tasmanian Magpies Ethiopia! They used to say, Fluting at dawn through pure, clear rills of sound, The magpies of that earlier day, Ethiopia! Ethiopia! From all […]

The Commination He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last Things, I meditate the […]

The Gateway Now the heart sings with all its thousand voices To hear this city of cells, my body, sing. The tree through the stiff clay […]

The Lamp Night and the sea; the firelight glowing; We sit in silence by the hearth; I musing, you beside me sewing, We glean the long […]

The Pleasure of Princes What pleasures have great princes? These: to know Themselves reputed mad with pride or power; To speak few words — few words […]

The Return of Persephone Gliding through the still air, he made no sound; Wing-shod and deft, dropped almost at her feet, And searched the ghostly regiments […]

The School of Night What did I study in your School of Night? When your mouth’s first unfathomable yes Opened your body to be my book, […]

Tiger At noon the paper tigers roar — Miroslav Holub The paper tigers roar at noon; The sun is hot, the sun is high. They roar […]