All others talked as if talk were a dance. Clodhopper I, with clumsy feet would break the gliding ring. Early I learned to

As you read, a white bear leisurel… pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian

The ache of marriage: thigh and tongue, beloved, are heavy with it, it throbs in the teeth We look for communion

Something is very gently, invisibly, silently, pulling at me-a thread or net of threads finer than cobweb and as

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

I like to find what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature… in repose, distinct.

Rose Red’s hair is brown as fur and shines in firelight as she pre… supper of honey and apples, curds… for the bear, and leaves it ready on the hearth-stone.

At sixteen I believed the moonlig… could change me if it would.           I moved my hea… on the pillow, even moved my bed as the moon slowly

The old wooden steps to the front… where I was sitting that fall morn… when you came downstairs, just awa… and my joy at sight of you (emergi… into golden day—

We live our lives of human passion… cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free

Hypocrite women, how seldom we spe… of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt! And if at Mill Valley perched in… the sweet rain drifting through we…

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

Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted ...

A doll’s hair concealing an eggshell skull delicately throbbing, within which maggots in voluptuous unrest jostle and shrug. Oh, Eileen, my

The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun,