Poetry
Summer 1943
A Love for Patsy
See the little maunderer Stretch out on the grass! His heart is burst asunder The pieces cry Alas. Upright, fat pink pieces Of fluffy cloud float overhead. The little […]
Poetry
Summer 1943
Over the Landscape with Transit and Plumb-Bob
I. Out of the woods, I wanted to make maps.A cool cartographer, by trigonometry,Can solve the notes left by traversing tramps.I wanted maps to leave the poor tramp empty. Reduction […]
New Verse by Brave Poets
Autumn 1942
Horses, Romantic Beasts
Horses, we never see them, romantic beasts. Their hooves are hard, their teeth square. And over their round eyes their hair Tassels like bangs pretty girls wear. By moonlight two […]
Poetry
Summer 1950
Homecoming
Even the train is taller than those shacks. You ride past washings, smoke, and chicken-wire And get out blushing, lugging down the tracks Your old brown bag, and there is […]
Poetry
Summer 1950
The Deluge
Look, like water beetles Leaving all my shores The ships ply where the wave embattles Ringing from the wars All sides of my discontent Disgorging horn-shaped continent. Grandpa cast his […]