COUNT these reminiscences like money.The Greeks had their picnics under another name.The Romans wore glad rags and told their neighbors, “What of it?”The Carlovingians hauling logs on carts, they tooStuck…
New-mown hay smell and wind of the plain made her a woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in them and her hands were tough for work and…
HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake?Have I sold ice to the poor in summer and coal to the poor in winter for the sake…
THERE’S a hole in the bottom of the sea. Do you want affidavits?There’s a man in the moon with money for you. Do you want affidavits?There are ten dancing girls in a…
WHAT cry of peach blossoms let loose on the air todayI heard with my face thrown in the pink-white of it all? in the red whisper of it all? What man I heard saying: Christ,…
Undertakers, hearse drivers, grave diggers,I speak to you as one not afraid of your business. You handle dust going to a long country,You know the secret behind your job is…
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture of hands arranged by an undertaker, shook thousands into convulsions…
LET us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter’s day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window,And let us talk about milk wagon drivers and grocery delivery boys.…
THEY put up big wooden gods.Then they burned the big wooden godsAnd put up brass gods andChanging their minds suddenlyKnocked down the brass gods and put upA doughface god with…