Poems

The Civil War- I am torn in two but I will conquer myself. I will dig up the pride. I will take scissors and cut out […]

The Consecrating Mother I stand before the sea and it rolls and rolls in its green blood saying, “Do not give up one god for I […]

The Dead Heart After I wrote this, a friend scrawled on this page, “Yes.” And I said, merely to myself, “I wish it could be for […]

The Death Baby 1. DREAMS I was an ice baby. I turned to sky blue. My tears became two glass beads. My mouth stiffened into a […]

The Death King I hired a carpenter to build my coffin and last night I lay in it, braced by a pillow, sniffing the wood, letting […]

The Division Of Parts 1. Mother, my Mary Gray, once resident of Gloucester and Essex County, a photostat of your will arrived in the mail today. […]

The Doctor Of The Heart Take away your knowledge, Doktor. It doesn’t butter me up. You say my heart is sick unto. You ought to have […]

The Double Image 1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves go queer, flapping […]

The Earth God loafs around heaven, without a shape but He would like to smoke His cigar or bite His fingernails and so forth. God owns […]

The Earth Falls Down If I could blame it all on the weather, the snow like the cadaver’s table, the trees turned into knitting needles, the […]