#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
You sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! —if we were rich
Beloved you are Caviar of Caviar Of all I love you best O my Japanese bird nest No herring from Norway
a trouble archaically fettered to produce E Pluribus Unum an island
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
beauty is a shell from the sea where she rules triumphant till love has had its way with her scallops and
If when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain
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...
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...
She sits with tears on her cheek her cheek on her hand
THE ARCHER is wake! The Swan is flying! Gold against blue An Arrow is lying. There is hunting in heaven—
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...
Oh strong—ridged and deeply hollow… nose of mine! what will you not be… What tactless asses we are, you an… always indiscriminate, always unas… and now it is the souring flowers…
Upon the table in their bowl in violent disarray of yellow sprays, green spikes of leaves, red pointed petals and curled heads of blue
Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house— boards for windows