(1923)
#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
Leaves are graygreen, the glass broken, bright green.
I bought a dish mop— having no daughter— for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees
I stopped the car to let the children down where the streets end in the sun at the marsh edge
A middle-northern March, now as a… gusts from the South broken agains… but from under, as if a slow hand… it moves—not into April—into a sec… the old skin of wind-clear scales…
It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
Summer! the painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest
beauty is a shell from the sea where she rules triumphant till love has had its way with her scallops and
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...
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go
The living quality of the man’s mind stands out and its covert assertions for art, art, art!
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
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…
The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the hunt it is toward evening from the left
My shoes as I lean unlacing them stand out upon flat worsted flowers under my feet.