#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XXCentury
How long will our bewildered heirs marooned in possessions not theirs puzzle at disposing of these three cunning feignings of hard candy in… the striped little pillowlike mock…
We were both of two minds about ad… and wasted our couple of stolen ho… half-undressed in the Afternoon M… kissing and drinking and doubting… She had never betrayed her husband…
In my dreams I am always trying t… its ledge of superior attack, its… the diamonds like stubby daggers,… blunt and black maces poised to cr… and the hearts, those bifurcated,…
On the fine wire of her whine she… Unseen in the ominous bedroom dark… A traitor to her camouflage, she t… A thirsty blue streak distinct as… I was to her a fragrant lake of bl…
The shadows have their seasons, to… The feathery web the budding maple… cast down upon the sullen lawn bears but a faint relation to high summer’s umbrageous weight
The spirit has infinite facets, bu… confiningly few sides. There is the left, the right, the back, the belly, an… in-betweens, northeasts and northw…
“Back from vacation,” the barber a… or the postman, or the girl at the… They are amazed to find the workad… still in place, their absence havi… their customers having hardly miss…
Such heat! It brings the brain ba… Small, recurrent events become the… the white-nosed coati treading the… bending thin branches like sidewal… the scarlet-rumped tanager flittin…
Orion is upstanding overhead and Venus does a dance of slow rec… with a thin new moon balanced on i… Artemis’s bow, aimed straight down… The palms don’t deign to rustle in…
Tell me, how do the manufacturers… turn a profit? I have used the sam… for forty years. The screwdriver m… once slipped into my young hand, a… Tools wait obliviously to be used:…
I wrote some words today that will… Maybe they will last “forever”— that is, more than ten years, in t… someone will read them, their ink… a light scratch on his mind, or he…
Pearl Avenue runs past the high-s… Bends with the trolley tracks, and… Before it has a chance to go two b… At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Bert… Is on the corner facing west, and…
Those dutiful dogtrots down airpor… while gnawing at a Dunkin’ Donuts… those hotel rooms where the TV re… waits by the bed like a suicide pi… those hours in the air amid white…
My stick fingers click with a snic… And, chuckling, they knuckle the k… Light-footed, my steel feelers fli… And pluck from these keys melodies… My paper can caper; abandon
What can you say about Pennsylvan… in regard to New England except t… it is slightly less cold, and less… or rather that the rocks are diffe… Redder, and gritty, and piled up h…