We’ve made a great mess of love Since we made an ideal of it. The moment I swear to love a woma… That moment I begin to hate her. The moment I even say to a woman:…
Trying to understand the words Uttered on all sides by birds, I recognize in what I hear Noises that betoken fear. Thought some of them, I’m certain…
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording
Swerving east, from rich industria… And traffic all night north; swerv… Too thin and thistled to be called… And now and then a harsh—named hal… Workmen at dawn; swerving to solit…
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories,
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Now they are no longer any trouble to each other he can turn things over, get down… of things that never happened, all… unfinishable business.
I was only eighteen years old when… The best college fraternity this s… Soon I was introduced to the Corn… My young life irretrievably change… The Corner, eight steps in front…
Here war is simple like a monument… A telephone is speaking to a man; Flags on a map assert that troops… A boy brings milk in bowls. There… For living men in terror of their…
I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…
Sweet shades why doe you seeke to… To mee who deeme delight in this v… Butt torment, sorrow, and mine own… To taste of joy, or your vaine ple… Show them your pleasures who saw n…
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone… Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat… And that faint hint of the absurd—
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
When will I ever be enough? When will I ever measure up? Tis the question I ask often Will I find the path to heaven? Nights are gloomy before I sleep
Where the three magenta Breakwaters take the shove And suck of the grey sea To the left, and the wave Unfists against the dun
we like to shower afterwards (I like the water hotter than she) and her face is always soft and pe… and she’ll wash me first spread the soap over my balls
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
How long does a man live after all… A thousand days or only one? One week or a few centuries? How long does a man spend living o… and what do we mean when we say go…
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?
Chaucer, Langland, Douglas, Dunb… brother Anons, how on earth did yo… without anaesthetics or plumbing, in daily peril from witches, warlo… lepers, The Holy Office, foreign…
you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
There will always be something to… There will always be wrongs to rig… There will always be need for a ma… And men unafraid to fight. There will always be honor to guar…
My man is Black Golden Amber Cha… Warm mouths of Brandy Fine Cautious sunlight on a patterned r… Coughing laughter, rocked on a whi… Graceful turns on woolen stilts S…
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Happy ye leaves when as those lill… Which hold my life in their dead d… Shall handle you and hold in loves… Lyke captives trembling at the vic… And happy lines, on which with sta…
The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest
More and more frequently the edges of me dissolve and I become a wish to assimilate the world, in… you, if possible through the skin like a cool plant’s tricks with ox…
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes
Meditation is old and honorable, s… not sit, every morning of my life,… looking into the shining world? Be… attended to, delight, as well as h… Can one be passionate about the ju…