There’s Chamfort. He’s a sample.Locked himself in his library with a gun,Shot off his nose and shot out his right eye.And this Chamfort knew how to writeAnd thousands read his…

DEATH comes once, let it be easy.Ring one bell for me once, let it go at that.Or ring no bell at all, better yet.  Sing one song if I die.Sing John…

SIX street ends come together here.They feed people and wagons into the center.In and out all day horses with thoughts of nose-bags,Men with shovels, women with baskets and baby buggies.Six…

Desolate and loneAll night long on the lakeWhere fog trails and mist creeps,The whistle of a boatCalls and cries unendingly,Like some lost childIn tears and troubleHunting the harbor’s breastAnd the…

ON the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams.It is a thin spiral of blue smoke,A morning campfire at a mountain lake. On the lips of the child Janet,Wisps…

I sat with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon     eating steak and onions.And he laughed and told stories of his wife and children     and the cause of labor…

Twenty men stand watching the muckers.          Stabbing the sides of the ditch          Where clay gleams yellow,          Driving the blades of their shovels          Deeper and deeper for the new gas mains          Wiping sweat off their faces              …

Wonder as of old thingsFresh and fair come backHangs over pasture and road.Lush in the lowland grasses riseAnd upland beckons to upland.The great strong hills are humble.

(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms.I might have said, “Dogs bark and the wind carries it away.”I might have said, “He who would make a door of…

HAVE I broken the smaller tabernacles, O Lord?And in the destruction of these set up the greater and massive, the everlasting tabernacles?I know nothing today, what I have done and…