(1916)
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Why go further? One might conceivably rectify the rhythm, study all out and arrive at the perfection of a tiger lily or a china doorknob. One might lift all out of the ruck, be a w...
I have had my dream—like others— and it has come to nothing, so tha… I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky—
When the snow falls the flakes spi… that concerns them most intimately two and two to make a dance the mind dances with itself, taking you by the hand,
Nude bodies like peeled logs sometimes give off a sweetest odor, man and woman under the trees in full excess matching the cushion of
The dayseye hugging the earth in August, ha! Spring is gone down in purple, weeds stand high in the corn, the rainbeaten furrow
The murderer’s little daughter who is barely ten years old jerks her shoulders right and left so as to catch a glimpse of me
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go
"Sweet land" at last! out of sea— the Venusremembering wavelets rippling with laughter—
munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good
Her body is not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth ——nor so remote a thing. It is a field of the wild carrot taking the field by force; the grass
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire
This particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely, safely, pleasantly a painful twitching of the eyelids or say a pe...
Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house— boards for windows
ALL those treasures that lie in t… Mightier than the room of the star… All those treasures—I hold them i… Against the sides and the lid and… Crying that there is no sun come a…
A three-day-long rain from the eas… an terminable talking, talking of no consequence—patter, patter,… Hand in hand little winds blow the thin streams aslant.