I drank musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with     the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter     one nightAnd his face had the shining light of an old-time Quaker,     he…

THE DOME of the capitol looks to the Potomac river.  Out of haze over the sunset,  Out of a smoke rose gold:One star shines over the sunset.Night takes the dome and the…

WAGON WHEEL GAP is a place I never sawAnd Red Horse Gulch and the chutes of Cripple Creek. Red-shirted miners picking in the sluices,Gamblers with red neckties in the night…

THE TELESCOPE picks off star duston the clean steel sky and sends it to me.  The telephone picks off my voice andsends it cross country a thousand miles.  The eyes in my…

SOMEBODY’S little girl-how easy to make a sob story over who she was once and who she is now.Somebody’s little girl-she played once under a crab-apple tree in June and…

ON Forty First Streetnear Eighth Avenuea frame house wobbles.  If houses went on crutchesthis house would beone of the cripples.  A sign on the house:Church of the Living GodAnd Rescue Home for…

The monotone of the rain is beautiful,And the sudden rise and slow relapseOf the long multitudinous rain.      The sun on the hills is beautiful,Or a captured sunset sea-flung,Bannered with…

IT’S going to come out all right-do you know?The sun, the birds, the grass-they know.They get along-and we’ll get along. Some days will be rainy and you will sit waitingAnd…

FIRST I would like to write for you a poem to be shouted in the teeth of a strong wind.Next I would like to write one for you to sit…

While the hum and the hurryOf passing footfallsBeat in my ear like the restless surfOf a wind-blown sea,A soul came to meOut of the look on a face. Eyes like…