Poems

A Cloud In Trousers – epilogue Your thoughts, dreaming on a softened brain, like an over-fed lackey on a greasy settee, with my heart’s bloody tatters […]

A Cloud In Trousers – part I You think malaria makes me delirious? It happened. In Odessa it happened. “I’ll come at four,” Maria promised. Eight. […]

A Cloud In Trousers – part II Glorify me! For me the great are no match. Upon every achievement I stamp nihil I never want to […]

A Cloud In Trousers – part III Ah, wherefrom this, how explain this brandishing of dirty fists at bright joy! She came, and thoughts of a […]

A Cloud In Trousers – part IV Maria! Maria! Maria! Let me in, Maria! I can’t suffer the streets! You won’t? You’d rather wait until my […]

At the top of my voice 1 She loves me-loves me not. My hands I pick and having broken my fingers fling away. So the first […]

Shakespeare Amid grandees of times Elizabethan you shimmered too, you followed sumptuous custom; the circle of ruff, the silv’ry satin that encased your thigh, the wedgelike […]

Azolan AT VILLAGE lived, in days of yore, A youth bred in Mahomet’s lore; His well-turned limbs were formed with grace, With blooming beauty glowed his […]

Epistle (to the author of The Three Impostors) Insipid writer, you pretend to draw for your readers The portraits of your 3 impostors; How is it […]

Epistle (Upon his arrival at his estate in Geneva) O take, O keep me, ever blest Domains Where lovely Flora with Pomona reigns; Where Art fulfills […]