#AmericanWriters
We need the ceremony of one anothe… meals served, more love, more handling of one another with… casting out of those who are not of our own household.
He drives onto the grassy shoulder… his seat-belt. The aluminum buckle… He is watched from behind by two u… He thinks: strapped to things we d… helmeted for cycling and all the j…
We say the sea is lonely; better s… Ourselves are lonesome creatures w… Gives neither yes or no for compan… Oh, there are people, all right, s… It is as populous as Maine today–
The two oaks lean apart for light. They aren’t as strong as lone oaks but in a wind they give each other… Daily since I cleared them I can… them, tempting to chain saw and ax…
Going abruptly into a starry night It is ignorance we blink from, dar… There is a gaze of animal delight Before the human vision. Then, ar… To nebulous danger, we may look fo…
In the tunnel of woods, as the roa… Winds up through the freckled ligh… Larger than life, crosses the road… He moves with the difficulty of re… Possum, armadillo, horseshoe crab.
on their own, I call that willful,… but that’s not judgement, only arg… such as we’ve had before. I watch a shaky man climb a cast-iron railing in my head, on
q|Je vois les effroyables espaces de l’Univers qui m’enferment, et je me trouve attaché à un coin de cette vaste étendue, sans savoir pourquoi je suis plutôt en ce lieu qu’en un autre, ...
Combed by the cold seas, Bering a… These are the exile islands of the… All the charts and history you can… Will not make them real as the fog… Or crystal as a certain hour is cl…
q|It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent: great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters. Owing to a peculiar form of the sh...
Touching your goodness, I am like… Who turns a letter over in his han… And you might think this was becau… was unfamiliar but, truth is, the… Has never had a letter from anyone…
Harnessed and zipped on a bright October day, having lied to his wi… Hazard jumps, and the silk spanks open, and he is falling safely. This is what for two years now
Do not embrace your mind’s new neg… Or embarrass the blackballed jew w… There must be years of atonement f… You may still be the blundering ra… With the wrong story, and they may…
If you or I should die That day desire would not renew Itself in any bed. The old snake of the world, eterni… That holds his tail in his mouth,
Limped out of the hot sky a hurt p… Held off, held off, whirring prett… Hit then and scuttled to a crooked… The stranger pilot who emerged—thi… War came suddenly here—talked to t…