#Americans
Grand Cayman This tuft that thrives on saline n… Inverted octopus with heavenward a… Thrust parching from a palm-bole h… A bird almost⎯of almost bird alarm…
Through the bound cable strands, t… Upward, veering with light, the fl… Taut miles of shuttling moonlight… The whispered rush, telepathy of w… Up the index of night, granite and…
Regard the capture here, 0 Janus-… As double as the hands that twist… Such eves at search or rest you ca… Reciting pain or glee, how can you… Twin shadowed halves: the breaking…
Infinite consanguinity it bears This tendered theme of you that li… Retrieves from sea plains where th… Resigns a breast that every wave e… While ribboned water lanes I wind
“And so we may arrive by Talmud s… And profane Greek to raise the bu… Of Helen’s house against the Isma… King of Thogarma, and his haberge… Brimstony, blue and fiery; and the…
We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consola… As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pockets… For we can still love the world, w…
How many dawns, chill from his rip… The seagull’s wings shall dip and… Shedding white rings of tumult, bu… Over the chained bay waters Liber… Then, with inviolate curve, forsak…
Perspective never withers from the… They keep that docile edict of the… That blends March with August An… These are but cows that see no oth… Than grass and snow, and their own…
O Carib Isle! The tarantula rattling at the lily… Across the feet of the dead, laid… Near the coral beach—nor zigzag fi… Side-stilting from the path (that…
Where the cedar leaf divides the s… I heard the sea. In sapphire arenas of the hills I was promised an improved infancy… Sulking, sanctioning the sun,
My hands have not touched pleasure… No,—nor my lips freed laughter sin… And with the day, distance again e… Voiceless between us, as an uncoil… Yet, love endures, though starving…
I wanted you, nameless Woman of t… No wraith, but utterly—as still mo… The Southern Cross takes night And lifts her girdles from her, on… High, cool,
It sheds a shy solemnity, This lamp in our poor room. O grey and gold amenity,— Silence and gentle gloom! Wide from the world, a stolen hour
The host, he says that all is well And the fire-wood glow is bright; The food has a warm and tempting s… But on the window licks the night. Pile on the logs... Give me your…
Meticulous, past midnight in clear… Infrangible and lonely, smooth as… Together in one merciless white bl… The bay estuaries fleck the hard s… —As if too brittle or too clear to…