I LOVE him, I love him, ran the patter of her lipsAnd she formed his name on her tongue and sangAnd she sent him word she loved him so much,So…
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THE WEST window is a panel of marching onions.Five new lilacs nod to the wind and fence boards.The rain dry fence boards, the stained knot holes, heliograph a peace.(How long…
A FOREFINGER of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky.It says: This way! this way! Four lions snore in stone at the corner of the shaft.They too are…
(For S. A.)TO write one book in five yearsor five books in one year,to be the painter and the thing painted,… where are we, bo? Wait-get his number.The barber shop handling…
THE TIME has gone by.The child is dead.The child was never even born.Why go on? Why so much as begin?How can we turn the clock back nowAnd not laugh at…
HERE in a cage the dollars come down. To the click of a tube the dollars tumble. And out of a mouth the dollars run. I finger the dollars, Paper and silver, Thousands a…
I SAW a telegram handed a two hundred pound man at a desk. And the little scrap of paper charged the air like a set of crystals in a chemist’s…
WHITE MOON comes in on a baby face.The shafts across her bed are flimmering. Out on the land White Moon shines,Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows,All silver to slow twisted…
AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call proud and beautiful,After…
THROW roses on the sea where the dead went down. The roses speak to the sea, And the sea to the dead.Throw roses, O lovers- Let the leaves wash on the salt in…