IN a jeweler’s shop I saw a man beatingout thin sheets of gold. I heard a womanlaugh many years ago.  Under a peach tree I saw petals scattered.. torn strips of…

TWO Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs, and an old soldier, Uncle Joe.Two Swede boys go upstairs and see Joe. His wife is dead, his only son…

I RISE out of my depths with my language.You rise out of your depths with your language. Two tongues from the depths,Alike only as a yellow cat and a green…

In the loam we sleep,In the cool moist loam,To the lull of years that passAnd the break of stars. From the loam, then,The soft warm loam,   We rise:To shape of…

SOMEBODY loses whenever somebody wins.This was known to the Chaldeans long ago.And more: somebody wins whenever somebody loses.This too was in the savvy of the Chaldeans.  They take it heaven’s hereafter…

The child’s wonderAt the old moonComes back nightly.She points her fingerTo the far silent yellow thingShining through the branchesFiltering on the leaves a golden sand,Crying with her little tongue, “See…

Shine on, O moon of summer.Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,All silver under your rain to-night. An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an    …

THE SEA-WASH never ends.The sea-wash repeats, repeats.Only old songs? Is that all the sea knows?  Only the old strong songs?  Is that all?The sea-wash repeats, repeats.

BLOSSOMS of babiesBlinking their storiesCome softOn the dusk and the babble;Little red gamblers,Handfuls that slept in the dust.   Summers of rain,Winters of drift,Tell off the years;And they go backWho came…

IN the moonlight under a shag-bark hickory treeWatching the yellow shadows melt in hoof-pools,Listening to the yes and the no of a woman’s hands,I kept my guess why the night…