Poems

Hora Stellatrix The stars hang thick in the apple tree, The south wind smells of the pungent sea, Gold tulip cups are heavy with dew. The […]

In Darkness Must all of worth be travailled for, and those Life’s brightest stars rise from a troubled sea Must years go by in sad uncertainty […]

In Excelsis You — you — Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver; Your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; Your hands moving, a chime […]

Interlude When I have baked white cakes And grated green almonds to spread on them; When I have picked the green crowns from the strawberries And […]

J–K. Huysmans A flickering glimmer through a window-pane, A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass, Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet Across uneven […]

Leisure Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures uncontrolled By shortening moments, when […]

Listening ‘T is you that are the music, not your song. The song is but a door which, opening wide, Lets forth the pent-up melody inside, […]

Loon Point Softly the water ripples Against the canoe’s curving side, Softly the birch trees rustle Flinging over us branches wide. Softly the moon glints and […]

Madonna of the Evening Flowers All day long I have been working, Now I am tired I call: “Where are you?” But there is only the […]

March Evening Blue through the window burns the twilight; Heavy, through trees, blows the warm south wind. Glistening, against the chill, gray sky light, Wet, black […]