BOX cars run by a mile long.And I wonder what they say to each otherWhen they stop a mile long on a sidetrack.  Maybe their chatter goes:I came from Fargo with…

I have been watching the war map slammed up for     advertising in front of the newspaper office.Buttons–red and yellow buttons–blue and black buttons–     are shoved back and forth across the…

THEY have taken the ball of earth    and made it a little thing. They were held to the land and horses;    they were held to the little seas.They have changed and shaped…

JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob.…

THE MARE Alix breaks the world’s trotting record one day. I see her heels flash down the dust of an Illinois race track on a summer afternoon. I see the…

IN the cool of the night timeThe clocks pick off the pointsAnd the mainsprings loosen.They will need winding.One of these days…          they will need winding. Rabelais in red boards,Walt Whitman in…

Hog Butcher for the World,Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I…

POLAND, France, Judea ran in her veins,Singing to Paris for bread, singing to Gotham in a fizz at the pop of a bottle’s cork.  “Won’t you come and play wiz me”…

LET down your braids of hair, lady.Cross your legs and sit before the looking-glassAnd gaze long on lines under your eyes.Life writes; men dance.  And you know how men pay women.

I SHALL cry God to give me a broken foot.  I shall ask for a scar and a slashed nose.  I shall take the last and the worst.  I shall be eaten by…