#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury Fere Verse
The rose is obsolete but each petal ends in an edge, the double facet cementing the grooved columns of air ——The edge
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
You say love is this, love is that… Poplar tassels, willow tendrils the wind and the rain comb, tinkle and drip, tinkle and drip— branches drifting apart. Hagh!
I feel the caress of my own finger… on my own neck as I place my colla… and think pityingly of the kind women I have known.
An old willow with hollow branches slowly swayed his few high gright… and sang: Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood’s edge…
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem— save that it’s green and wooden— I come, my sweet,
munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good
I have discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see t… the domes of the Church of the Paulist Fathers in Weehawken
The pure products of America go crazy— mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey
My wife’s new pink slippers have gay pompons. There is not a spot or a stain on their satin toes or their sides… All night they lie together
The living quality of the man’s mind stands out and its covert assertions for art, art, art!
Fools have big wombs. For the rest?—here is pennyroyal if one knows to use it. But time is only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there’l...
Rather notice, mon cher, that the moon is titled above the point of the steeple than that its color
Leaves are graygreen, the glass broken, bright green.
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...