#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
It is cold. The white moon is up among her scattered stars— like the bare thighs of the Police Sergeant’s wife—among her five children . . .
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain
Take it out in vile whisky, take i… in lifting your skirts to show you… crotches; it is this that is inten… You are it. Your pleas will alway… You too will always go up with the…
The rose is obsolete but each petal ends in an edge, the double facet cementing the grooved columns of air—The edge
Disciplined by the artist to go round and round in holiday gear a riotously gay rabble of
Each time it rings I think it is for me but it is not for me nor for anyone it merely
a burst of iris so that come down for breakfast we searched through the rooms for
If when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists
This is a slight stiff dance to a waking baby whose arms have been lying curled back above his head upon the pillow, making a flower—the eyes closed. Dead to the world! Waking is a...
When over the flowery, sharp pastu… edge, unseen, the salt ocean lifts its form—chicory and daisies tied, released, seem hardly flower… but color and the movement—or the…
Upon the table in their bowl in violent disarray of yellow sprays, green spikes of leaves, red pointed petals and curled heads of blue
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees
Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings— beating color up into it at a far edge,—beating it, beating…
It is still warm enough to slip from the weeds into the lake’s edge, your clothes blushing in the grass and three small boys grinning behind the derelict hearth’s side. But summer...
It is a satisfaction a joy to have one of those in the house. when she takes a bath