#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
If you had come away with me into another state we had been quiet together. But there the sun coming up out of the nothing beyond the lake…
Vast and grey, the sky is a simulacrum to all but him whose days are vast and grey and— In the tall, dried grasses
In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other’s a… seem still so that squirrels and colored bird…
The May sun—whom all things imitate— that glues small leaves to the wooden trees shone from the sky
"Sweet land" at last! out of sea— the Venusremembering wavelets rippling with laughter—
Take it out in vile whisky, take i… in lifting your skirts to show you… crotches; it is this that is inten… You are it. Your pleas will alway… You too will always go up with the…
You sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! —if we were rich
The rose is obsolete but each petal ends in an edge, the double facet cementing the grooved columns of air ——The edge
The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls
Beloved you are Caviar of Caviar Of all I love you best O my Japanese bird nest No herring from Norway
O’eh’lee! La’la! Donna! Donna! Blue is the sky of Palermo; Blue is the little bay; And dost thou remember the orange…
This is a schoolyard crowded with children of all ages near a village on a small stream
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which
I bought a dish mop— having no daughter— for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine
All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among