Poetry
Spring 1950
Midsummer Night’s Dream
The canvas leaves, the painted trees seem natural. Perspective deepens with the curtain’s rise: and the back-drop swims in a pale blue Light. The music fades out quietly. The audience […]
Poetry
Autumn 1948
The Twins
An Epitaph Grown to full manhood, the brothers lived alone, a parent to each, supplanting the parental stem. As such they died, though by Each other's hand; and in this country […]
Poetry
Autumn 1946
Grandmother
Collage of wood, needle point page from bible, pressed flowers by Arthur C. Dove Museum of Modern Art There could have been violets or a black silk bag, the climate […]
Poetry
Autumn 1946
Palisades Park: 1913
(To the memory of my father in a straw boater) After the trolley’s laborious ascent, the evening landscape restfully retired to the murmurous insects and the threat of green. And […]