#AmericanWriters #ArsPoetica
I married in the world’s black night for warmth if not repose. At the close—
I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich
Well, spring overflows the land, floods floor, pump, wash machine of the woman moored to this low sh… Goodbye to lilacs by the door and all I planted for the eye.
The wild and wavy event now chintz at the window was revolution . . . Adams to Miss Abigail Smith:
Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? Fourteen washrags, Ed Van Ess? Must be going to give em to the church, I guess. He drinks, you know. The day we m…
In the great snowfall before the b… colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemp… along this road I worked the print shop
My friend tree I sawed you down but I must attend an older friend the sun
Nothing worth noting except an Andromeda with quadrangular shoots— the boots of the people
My wife is ill! And I sit waiting for a quorum Fast ride
And the place was water Fish fowl flood
The chemist creates the brazen approximation: Life Thy will be done
My mother saw the green tree toad on the window sill her first one since she was young. We saw it breathe
Feign a great calm; all gay transport soon ends. Chant: who knows— flight’s end or flight’s beginning for the resting gull?
Old Mother turns blue and from us… “Don’t let my head drop to the ear… I’m blind and deaf.” Death from t… a thimble in her purse. “It’s a long day since last night.
You are my friend— you bring me peaches and the high bush cranberry you carry my fishpole