#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury #FreeVerse
This plot of ground facing the waters of this inlet is dedicated to the living presenc… Emily Dickinson Wellcome who was born in England; married;
It is a satisfaction a joy to have one of those in the house. when she takes a bath
To make two bold statements: There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there’s nothing sentimental about a poe...
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...
I gotta buy me a new girdle. (I’ll buy you one) O.K.
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees
Tracks of rain and light linger in the spongy greens of a nature whos… flickering mountain—bulging nearer… ebbing back into the sun hollowing itself away to hold a la…
The little sparrows hop ingenuously about the pavement quarreling with sharp voices
It’s all in the sound. A song. Seldom a song. It should be a song—made of particulars, wasps,
I lie here thinking of you:—— the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves,
Subtle, clever brain, wiser than… by what devious means do you contr… to remain idle? Teach me, O maste…
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…
Snow falls: years of anger following hours that float idly down — the blizzard drifts its weight
While she sits there with tears on her cheek her cheek on
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.
