#AmericanWriters
To make two bold statements: There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there’s nothing sentimental about a poe...
The grass is very green, my friend… and tousled, like the head of —— your grandson, yes? And the mounta… the mountain we climbed twenty years since for the last
Disciplined by the artist to go round and round in holiday gear a riotously gay rabble of
A middle-northern March, now as a… gusts from the South broken agains… but from under, as if a slow hand… it moves—not into April—into a sec… the old skin of wind-clear scales…
Tracks of rain and light linger in the spongy greens of a nature whos… flickering mountain—bulging nearer… ebbing back into the sun hollowing itself away to hold a la…
In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other’s a… seem still so that squirrels and colored bird…
The rose is obsolete but each petal ends in an edge, the double facet cementing the grooved columns of air ——The edge
The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit of uselessness which delights them— all the exciting detail
Light hearted William twirled his November moustaches and, half dressed, looked from the bedroom window upon the spring weather.
I lie here thinking of you:—— the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves,
The world begins again! Not wholly insufflated the blackbirds in the rain upon the dead topbranches of the living tree,
This is a schoolyard crowded with children of all ages near a village on a small stream
Winter is long in this climate and spring—a matter of a few days only,—a flower or two picked from mud or from among wet leaves or at best against treacherous
Constantly near you, I never in m… sixty-four years knew you so well… or half so well. We talked. you we… so lucid, so disengaged from all e… of place and time. We talked of ou…
All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among