Poems

Market Day White, glittering sunlight fills the market square, Spotted and sprigged with shadows. Double rows Of bartering booths spread out their tempting shows Of globed […]

Mirage How is it that, being gone, you fill my days, And all the long nights are made glad by thee? No loneliness is this, nor […]

Monadnock in Early Spring Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all The little lesser hills which compass thee, Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy, Yet holding Winter in […]

New York at Night A near horizon whose sharp jags Cut brutally into a sky Of leaden heaviness, and crags Of houses lift their masonry Ugly […]

On Carpaccio’s Picture Swept, clean, and still, across the polished floor From some unshuttered casement, hid from sight, The level sunshine slants, its greater light Quenching […]

Opal You are ice and fire, The touch of you burns my hands like snow. You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, […]

Patterns I walk down the garden-paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, […]

Petals Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our […]

Prayer for a profusion of sunflowers Send sunflowers! With my turkey-bone whistle I am calling the birds To sing upon the sunflowers. For when the clouds […]

Prayer for lightning My corn is green with red tassels, I am praying to the lightning to ripen my corn, I am praying to the thunder […]