Poems

Willow Waly! [HE.] PRITHEE, pretty maiden – prithee, tell me true (Hey, but I’m doleful, willow, willow waly!) Have you e’er a lover a-dangling after you? […]

Would You Know? Would you know the kind of maid Sets my heart a flame-a? Eyes must be downcast and staid, Cheeks must flush for shame-a! […]

Ghazal I JISEY ISHQ KA TEER-E-KAARI LAGEY USEY ZINDAGI KYOn NA BHAARI LAGEY NA CHHODEY MOHABBAT DAM-E-MARG LAG JISEY YAAR JANI SOOn YAARI LAGEY NA HOWEY […]

Boxed City My beautiful wife Rearranges deaf photographs talk Rococo & dances off four walls Son Tosh pencils the faithful Image & ignores the subtle rama […]

First & Last Fearpoem If only we can split Before the Curtain drops. The Man swings close bust eyes Ace with dozen heads racked His funk […]

Opos Sliding on hip knees thru cryptic Rose-lit circles poet Johnson Wieners Grand Duchess of the five Dollar matchbox yr face reflecting Thousands of terrestrial years […]

Untitled For John Birch & Karl Marx If someone will explain Chinese perspective to me–I will elaborate on the Choctaw & Cherokee blood in Jack Dempsey.

From Romany To Rome Upon the road to Romany It’s stay, friend, stay! There’s lots o’ love and lots o’ time To linger on the way; […]

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build […]

Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The […]