Red drips from my chin where I have been eating.Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off my mouth. Clots of red mess my hairAnd the tiger, the…

THE SEA at its worst drives a white foam up,The same sea sometimes so easy and rocking with green mirrors.So you were there when the white foam was upAnd the…

I sang to you and the moonBut only the moon remembers.     I sangO reckless free-hearted          free-throated rythms,Even the moon remembers them     And is kind to me.

THIRTY-TWO Greeks are dipping their feet in a creek.Sloshing their bare feet in a cool flow of clear water.All one midsummer day ten hours the Greeks        stand in leather shoes shoveling…

I waited today for a freight train to pass.Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the     bars, went by.And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between     cars.Well,…

RED barns and red heifers spot the greengrass circles around Omaha-the farmershaul tanks of cream and wagon loads of cheese.  Shale hogbacks across the river at CouncilBluffs-and shanties hang by an…

ON the one hand the steel works.On the other hand the penitentiary.Sante Fe trains and Alton trainsBetween smokestacks on the westAnd gray walls on the east.And Lockport down the river.…

THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth.The head of this man is a gaunt strong head. The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains,…

They offer you many things,     I a few.Moonlight on the play of fountains at nightWith water sparkling a drowsy monotone,Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talkAnd a cross-play of loves and adulteriesAnd…

In western fields of corn and northern timber lands,     They talk about me, a saloon with a soul,     The soft red lights, the long curving bar,     The leather seats and…