Poems

To My Venerable Friend, The President Of The Royal Academy From one unused in pomp of words to raise A courtly monument of empty praise, Where […]

1926 The porchlight coming on again, Early November, the dead leaves Raked in piles, the wicker swing Creaking. Across the lots A phonograph is playing Ja-Da. […]

A Distance From The Sea To Ernest Brace “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a […]

A Musician’s Wife Between the visits to the shock ward The doctors used to let you play On the old upright Baldwin Donated by a former […]

A Pastiche For Eve Unmanageable as history: these Followers of Tammuz to the land That offered no return, where dust Grew thick on every bolt and […]

Colloquy In the broken light, in owl weather, Webs on the lawn where the leaves end, I took the thin moon and the sky for cover […]

Covering Two Years This nothingness that feeds upon itself: Pencils that turn to water in the hand, Parts of a sentence, hanging in the air, Thoughts […]

Dead March Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore, Imperfect kindling even in this wind, burn on. Someone […]

Interregnum Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant, And leave him stinking in the square. Torture the chancellor. Leave the ambassador Strung by his thumbs from the pleasant […]

La Vita Nuova Last summer, in the blue heat, Over the beach, in the burning air, A legless beggar lurched on calloused fists To where I […]