The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address… Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them.
The apes yawn and adore their flea… The parrots shriek as if they were… Like cheap tarts to attract the st… Fatigued with indolence, tiger and… Lie still as the sun. The boa-con…
Up, black, striped and demasked li… At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tai… Paraded the skunk. Night after ni… I expected her like a visitor. The refrigerator whinnied into sil…
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can’t we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself...
The sun has come. The mist has gone. We see in the distance... our long way home. I was always yours to have.
All I know is a door into the dar… Outside, old axles and iron hoops… Inside, the hammered anvil’s short… The unpredictable fantail of spark… Or hiss when a new shoe toughens i…
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev’ning star That shone through the plate glass… From over Leamington Spa Beside her the lonely crochet
It was beautiful as God must be beautiful: glacial eyes that had looked on violence and come to terms with it; a body too huge
On the sheep-cropped summit, under… The mouse crouched, staring out th… It dared not take. Time and a world Too old to alter, the five mile pr…
The useless dawn finds me in a des… Nights are proud waves; darkblue t… Nights have a habit of mysterious… The surge, that night, left me the… and odd ends: some hated friends t…
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching
He is here, come down to look for… It is the song that calls you back… a song of joy and suffering equally: a promise: that things will be different up t…
What is reality? I am a plaster doll; I pose with eyes that cut open without la… upon some shellacked and grinning… eyes that open, blue, steel, and c…
I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place
When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big jok… A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke,
I thought it would last my time— The sense that, beyond the town, There would always be fields and f… Where the village louts could clim… Such trees as were not cut down;
We wear the mask that grins and li… It shades our cheeks and hides our… This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subt…
The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything that… Some people wrap their lies around… And you sit wondering
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
The dog loved its churlish life, Scraps, thefts. Itsdeclined blood An anarchy of mindless pride. Nobody’s pet, but good enough To double with a bitch as poor.
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WE’ RE foot—slog—slog—slog—slogg… Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over… (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up… There’s no discharge in the war! Seven—six—eleven—five—nine—an’—twe…
The water turns a long way down over the raw stone… ice crusts around it We walk separately along the hill to the open
You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me. I was obedient, but
Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker.
Blue and gold ascending Bright blue beads braided strung together love infused interests purposes likes in order always the same aspirations –excel…
Showers and Flowers Punxsy Phil still napping In his den since saying We’re in for more snow days Six more weeks of cold daze
An escape from the pain Someplace soft to fall When the world knocks me down And the ground is hard. Decorated by the hearts
On the grass when I arrive, Filling the stillness with life, But ready to scare off At the very first wrong move. In the ivy when I leave.
Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ri… I saw in the evening The stars go over the lonely ocean…
To step over the low wall that div… Road from concrete walk above the… Brings sharply back something know… The miniature gaiety of seasides. Everything crowds under the low ho…
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle P… A little black nothing of feet and… And by-and-by, when his eyes came… He saw his mother, the big Tattoo… And all that he learned he learned…
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I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the… of great price, the one field that…
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
Be infinitesimal under that sky, a… even the sailing hawk misses, a wr… among the rocks where the mist par… Recall the way mere mortals are ov… by circumstance, how great reputat…
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…
growing a spring garden garden rendezvous so many ways scenes of love critter calls to mate April showers gift to May
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
Make no mistake: if He rose at al… it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not… reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall.
Looking ahead Sitting on your front porch you did not look back... musing you crossed many rivers recalling comfortably on your adirondack
I thought that I could not be hur… I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering— immune to pain or agony.
Two roads diverged in a yellow woo… And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I c… To where it bent in the undergrowt…
There are similarities I notice: that the hills which the eyes make flat as a wall… together, open as I move to let me through; become
I climbed through woods in the hou… Evil air, a frost-making stillness… Not a leaf, not a bird,— A world cast in frost. I came out… Where my breath left tortuous stat…
I had written him a letter which… Knowledge, sent to where I met hi… He was shearing when I knew him,… Just 'on spec’, addressed as follo… And an answer came directed in a w…
It is the first mild day of March… Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall… That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air,
I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is
Last night in the fields I lay down in the darkness to think about death, but instead I fell asleep,
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
The word became flesh Hosanna welcome peacemaker not a warrior on a donkey ride Greeting palms along the way
Forget the long, smouldering afternoon. It is this moment when the ball scoots
A timeless image; a balcony with an ocean; or a prairie full of stars. It doesn’t matter where we are. A garden full of roses;
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders
Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts,
Lamb’s Book Of Life The grim reaper there at the door At all times 24/7, evil stoic Sa… He knows all humans are mortal wil… Sooner later they die sooner bette…
Not quite four a.m., when the rapt… strikes me from sleep, and I rise from the comfortable bed and go to another room, where my books ar… in their neat and colorful rows. H…
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