#AmericanWriters
This last continent Still to be discovered. My hand is dreaming, is building Its ship. For crew it takes A pack of bones, for food
A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I… in the white? Walt Whitman One
Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like a police-whistle
In my great grandmother’s time, All one needed was a broom To get to see places And give the geese a chase in the… •
Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.
It seemed the kind of life we want… Wild strawberries and cream in the… Sunlight in every room. The two of us walking by the sea n… Some evenings, however, we found o…
Seems like a long time Since the waiter took my order. Grimy little luncheonette, The snow falling outside. Seems like it has grown darker
Millions were dead; everybody was… I stayed in my room. The Presiden… Spoke of war as of a magic love po… My eyes were opened in astonishmen… In a mirror my face appeared to me
Of the light in my room: Its mood swings, Dark-morning glooms, Summer ecstasies. Spider on the wall,
On the road with billowing poplars… In a country flat and desolate To the far-off gray horizon, where… A man and a woman went on foot, Each carrying a small suitcase.
O crows circling over my head and… I admit to being, at times, Suddenly, and without the slightes… Exceedingly happy. On a morning otherwise sunless,
You give the appearance of listeni… To my thoughts, o trees, Bent over the road I am walking On a late summer evening When every one of you is a steep s…
Boss of all bosses of the universe… Mr. know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, w… And whatever else you’re good at. Go ahead, shuffle your zeros tonig… Dip in ink the comets’ tails.
The obvious is difficult To prove. Many prefer The hidden. I did, too. I listened to the trees. They had a secret
Enter without knocking, hard-worki… I’m just sitting here mulling over What to do this dark, overcast day… It was a night of the radio turned… Fitful sleep, vague, troubling dre…