THE BALLOONS hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens.They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and red, they float their faces on the face of the sky.Balloon…

I HAVE ransacked the encyclopediasAnd slid my fingers among topics and titlesLooking for you.  And the answer comes slow.There seems to be no answer.  I shall ask the next banana peddler the…

THERE is a blue star, Janet,Fifteen years’ ride from us,If we ride a hundred miles an hour.  There is a white star, Janet,Forty years’ ride from us,If we ride a hundred…

What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white     moon alone with our thoughts, Bill,Alone with our dreams, Bill, soft as the women tying     scarves around their…

The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover the harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.

IF I should pass the tomb of JonahI would stop there and sit for awhile;Because I was swallowed one time deep in the darkAnd came out alive after all.  If I…

THE HAGGARD woman with a hacking cough and a deathless love whispers of whiteflowers … in your poem you pour like a cup of coffee, Gabriel.  The slim girl whose voice…

Strolling alongBy the teeming docks,I watch the ships put out.Black ships that heave and lungeAnd move like mastodonsArising from lethargic sleep. The fathomed harborCalls them not nor daresThem to a…

GOLD of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon,Canada thistle blue and flimmering larkspur blue,Tomatoes shining in the October sun with red hearts,Shining five and six in a…

LET me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord.Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool,        on a child.To-day, let me be monosyllabic … a crony of old men        who wash sunlight…