Poems

Bantams in Pine-woods Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackmoor to bear […]

Continual Conversation With A Silent Man The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die– The broken cartwheel on […]

Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green with yellow rings, Or yellow […]

Domination Of Black At night, by the fire, The colors of the bushes And of the fallen leaves, Repeating themselves, Turned in the room, Like the […]

Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour Light the first light of evening In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the […]

Gray Room Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or […]

In The Carolinas The lilacs wither in the Carolinas. Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins. Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of […]

Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly Among the more irritating minor ideas Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home To Concord, at the […]

Metaphors of a Magnifico Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a […]

Nomad Exquisite As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth The big-finned palm And green vine angering for life, As the immense dew of Florida Brings […]