Legs hold a torso away from the earth.And a regular high poem of legs is here.Powers of bone and cord raise a belly and lungsOut of ooze and over the…
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EARLY May, after cold rain the sun baffling cold wind.Irish setter pup finds a corner near the cellar door, all sun and no wind,Cuddling there he crosses forepaws and lays…
Many birds and the beating of wingsMake a flinging reckless humIn the early morning at the rocksAbove the blue poolWhere the gray shadows swim lazy. In your blue eyes, O…
TWO fishes swimming in the sea,Two birds flying in the air,Two chisels on an anvil-maybe.Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each other-maybe.Sure I would rather be a chisel with you…
THERE is something terribleabout a hurdy-gurdy,a gipsy man and woman,and a monkey in red flannelall stopping in front of a big housewith a sign “For Rent” on the doorand the…
THE WIND stops, the wind begins.The wind says stop, begin. A sea shovel scrapes the sand floor.The shovel changes, the floor changes. The sandpipers, maybe they know.Maybe a three-pointed foot can tell.Maybe…
I WAS a boy when I heard three red wordsa thousand Frenchmen died in the streetsfor: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity-I askedwhy men die for words. I was older; men with mustaches, sideburns,lilacs,…
SPEAK, sir, and be wise.Speak choosing your words, sir, like an old woman over a bushel of apples.
I dreamed one man stood against a thousand,One man damned as a wrongheaded fool.One year and another he walked the streets,And a thousand shrugs and hootsMet him in the shoulders…