Poetry
Summer 1969
From the Other Side
Greasy wings, My angel hangs outside the screen. His black lips whisper mud, Old baseball scores, Sermons out of Del Rio Meaningless as a moth’s flutterings, And yet he has […]
Poetry
Summer 1969
Speech out of the Dark
Cain’s kin, A march-stepper too, I howl with Grendel as he runs Bleeding into the dark, Seeking his mother in the stagnant mere— The hero hunts us like the sun […]
Poetry
Spring 1964
A Dead Girl
A cold perfection clings Only a moment. Smile, Caught napping for awhile, At us, who think such things As faces matter now, And have rouged yours the pink Of youth. […]
Poetry
Spring 1964
The Wolf in the Picture: A Short Story
Because the pictured wolf was cold The boy would pity him and wonder Why wolves were kept from houses. Old, He knew the reason, framed it under The glass of […]
Poetry
Summer 1962
Carmen Saeculare
Shuffle and reshuffle. Still the times will stack The dies irae ready in the deck. Grown various-minded as a hand grenade, I feel like bursting, or a Grant-in-Aid; See Europe […]
Poetry
Winter 1961
The Death of Arthur Flegenheimer*
The stenographer takes down every word,No matter how they sound to habited ears;The pencil on the tablet scratches, unawareThat Dutch is flying out the window whereTwo angels dressed as Izzy […]