#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
My shoes as I lean unlacing them stand out upon flat worsted flowers under my feet.
By constantly tormenting them with reminders of the lice in their children’s hair, the School Physician first brought their hatred down on him.
The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the hunt it is toward evening from the left
O’eh’lee! La’la! Donna! Donna! Blue is the sky of Palermo; Blue is the little bay; And dost thou remember the orange…
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.
When I am alone I am happy. The air is cool. The sky is flecked and splashed and wound with color. The crimson phalloi of the sassafras leaves
In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other’s a… seem still so that squirrels and colored bird…
Even in the time when as yet I had no certain knowledge of her She sprang from the nest, a young… Whose first flight circled the for… I know now how then she showed me
When the snow falls the flakes spi… that concerns them most intimately two and two to make a dance the mind dances with itself, taking you by the hand,
Go to sleep—though of course you w… to tideless waves thundering slant… strong embankments, rattle and swi… dashed thirty feet high, caught by… scattered and strewn broadcast in…
munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good
The little sparrows hop ingenuously about the pavement quarreling with sharp voices
My townspeople, beyond in the grea… are many with whom it were far mor… profitable for me to live than her… These whirr about me calling, call… and for my own part I answer them,…
There were some dirty plates and a glass of milk beside her on a small table near the rank, disheveled bed— Wrinkled and nearly blind
She sits with tears on her cheek her cheek on her hand