#Americans
On the first page of my dreambook It’s always evening In an occupied country. Hour before the curfew. A small provincial city.
O crows circling over my head and… I admit to being, at times, Suddenly, and without the slightes… Exceedingly happy. On a morning otherwise sunless,
In my great grandmother’s time, All one needed was a broom To get to see places And give the geese a chase in the… •
The truth is dark under your eyeli… What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there’s no o… All day long you’ll squint at the… When the wind blows you’ll shiver…
Extraordinary efforts are being ma… To hide things from us, my friend. Some stay up into the wee hours To search their souls. Others undress each other in darke…
And the one that’s got it in for y… Mister, that keeps taunting you In an old man’s morning wheeze Every time you so much as glance a… Or blurt something in your defense…
The mad and homeless take shelter Against the cold weather In tombs of the fabulously rich, Where they huddle in their rags And make themselves scarce only
Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like a police-whistle
You give the appearance of listeni… To my thoughts, o trees, Bent over the road I am walking On a late summer evening When every one of you is a steep s…
A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I… in the white? Walt Whitman One
Seems like a long time Since the waiter took my order. Grimy little luncheonette, The snow falling outside. Seems like it has grown darker
There was a melon fresh from the g… So ripe the knife slurped As it cut it into six slices. The children were going back to sc… Their mother, passing out paper pl…
The mail truck goes down the coast Carrying a single letter. At the end of a long pier The bored seagull lifts a leg now… And forgets to put it down.
As an ant is powerless Against a raised boot, And only has an instant To have a bright idea or two. The black boot so polished,
This last continent Still to be discovered. My hand is dreaming, is building Its ship. For crew it takes A pack of bones, for food