#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
Among of green stiff old
In Brueghel’s great picture, The… the dancers go round, they go roun… around, the squeal and the blare a… tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and f… tipping their bellies (round as th…
contend in a sea which the land pa… shielding them from the too—heavy… of an ungoverned ocean which when… tortures the biggest hulls, the be… to pit against its beatings, and s…
It is a willow when summer is over… a willow by the river from which no leaf has fallen nor bitten by the sun turned orange or crimson.
By the road to the contagious hosp… under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields
It is a small plant delicately branched and tapering conically to a point, each branch and the peak a wire for
It is a satisfaction a joy to have one of those in the house. when she takes a bath
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 will teach you my towns… how to perform a funeral… for you have it over a tr… of artists— unless one should scour t…
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem– save that it’s green and wooden– I come, my sweet,
The dayseye hugging the earth in August, ha! Spring is gone down in purple, weeds stand high in the corn, the rainbeaten furrow
Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady’s slipper. Your knees
Rather notice, mon cher, that the moon is titled above the point of the steeple than that its color