Poems

Clothed In Beauty As if chiseled, a fruit-laden branch Hangs in my garden, asleep – so low… The trees sleep – and dream? – in moonlight; […]

Heaven Above, Heaven Below Night opens wide the burning Macrocosm,- And heaven’s hierarchies come into view Lo, the spirit sings, and the elements dance Interwoven with […]

Love We are two trunks ignited by lightning Two flames in the midnight forest; We are two meteors flying in the night, The double-stinging arrow of […]

Poets Of Spirit The snow is clothed in dawn In the high desert, We are oaths of Eternity In the azure of Beauty. We are splashes […]

The Russian Mind Willful and avid mind,- The Russian mind is dangerous as flame: So unrestrainable, so clear, A happy and a gloomy mind. Like the […]

The Vineyard Of Dionysus Dionysus walks his vineyard, his beloved; Two women in dark clothing – two vintagers – follow him. Dionysus tells the two mournful […]

A Zacinto I’ll never step ashore and feel your beach the way I felt it as a barefoot child, or see you waver in the windy […]

To The Night Maybe because you always have appeared The image of that fatal rest to me, O night! You come towards me so dear! Escorted […]

A Winter Noon Who in the moment of my happiness (God forgive my using a word so grand, so terrible) reduced my brief delight nearly to […]

A Cooking Egg En l’an trentiesme de mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j’ay beues … Pipit sate upright in her chair Some distance from where […]