Those groans men use passing a woman on the street or on the steps of the subway to tell her she is a female and their flesh knows it,

Something forgotten for twenty yea… and mothers came from Cordova and… and though I am a citizen of the… stranger here than anywhere else,… I am Essex-born:

When I found the door I found the vine leaves speaking among themselves in abund… whispers. My presence made them

Though the road turn at last to death’s ordinary door, and we knock there, ready to enter and it opens easily for us,

Brown gas-fog, white beneath the street lamps. Cut off on three sides, all space… with our bodies. Bodies that stumble

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don’t know the

Long after you have swung back away from me I think you are still with me: you come in close to the shore on the tide

Among the blight-killed eucalypts,… trees and bushes rusted by Christm… the yards and hillsides exhausted… certain airy white blossoms punctu… reappeared, and dense clusters of…

Weier Tagesanbruch. Stille. Als… hielt ich es für Seewind, in unser… von Salz, von baumlosen Horizonte… bewegte sich nicht; das Laub meine… regungslos.

The moon is a sow and grunts in my throat Her great shining shines through m… so the mud of my hollow gleams and breaks in silver bubbles

Intricate and untraceable weaving and interweaving, dark strand with light: designed, beyond all spiderly contrivance,

Pale, then enkindled, light advancing, emblazoning summits of palm and pine,

It’s when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shu… the taint in our own selves, that… cracks the mind’s shell and enters… not to a flower, not to a dolphin,

Fully occupied with growing—that’s the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patience than I’ve… to sit keeping watch with it till…