#Americans
In memory of D. W. Prall The ghosts of James and Peirce in… At star-pierced midnight, after th… (Episcopalian! palian! the ringing… Stare at me now as if they wish me…
Let me not, ever, to the marriage… Of Galilee admit the slightest se… Of doubt about the astonishing and… Of chance and choice to throw a sh… Of disbelief in truth—Love is not…
I should have been a plumber fixin… And mending pure white bathtubs fo… (who scorned all lies, all liars,… And then, perhaps, he would bestow… (O modesty aside, forgive my falle…
Caesar, the amplifier voice, annou… Crime and reparation. In the barb… Recumbent men attend, while absent… The barber doffs the naked face wi… Caesar proposes, Caesar promises
Is the spider a monster in miniatu… His web is a cruel stair, to be su… Designed artfully, cunningly place… A delicate trap, carefully spun To bind the fly (innocent or unawa…
What curious dresses all men wear! The walker you met in a brown stud… The President smug in rotogravure… The mannequin, the bathing beauty. The bubble-dancer, the deep-sea di…
When I was a young man, I loved t… And I called a spade a spade And the only only thing that made… Was to lift the masks at the masqu… I took them off my own face,
News of the Gold World of May in… “Wooden shoes will clatter again on freshly scrubbed streets—” The tulip will arise and reign aga… windows
Tiger Christ unsheathed his sword… Threw it down, became a lamb. Swift spat upon the species, but Took two women to his heart. Samson who was strong as death
(After Valery) This hushed surface where the dove… Amid the pines vibrates, amid the… Here the noon’s justice unites all… The sea aspires forever to begin a…
If nature is life, nature is death… It is winter as it is spring: Confusion is variety, variety And confusion in everything Make experience the true conclusio…
This is the greatest thing in Nor… Europe is the greatest thing in N… High in the sky, dark in the heart… Among the natural powers of sunlig… Changing, second by second, shifti…
The riches of the poet are equal t… His power is his left hand It is idle weak and precious His poverty is his wealth, a wealt… like Midas Because it is that laz…
You, my photographer, you, most aw… Who climbed to the bridge when the… Climbed with your camera when the… And lighted your flashes and, stan… Wound the camera in the sudden bur…
Old man in the crystal morning aft… Your throat swathed in a muffler,… Figure building the snow man which… For the grandchild’s target, do you know