Poetry
Autumn 1948
I Remember
I remember a yellow wood: A thousand thousand leaves lay underfoot And a thousand thousand tented from the sun Black stems and roots, a yellow rutted path, And I walked […]
Poetry
Autumn 1948
Latitudes
Between the mariner and his numb hand Shaped to the frozen oar, Climbing the ponderous slopes toward land, And the murderer Lost on the endless wave Of mountains lifting and […]
Poetry
Autumn 1948
The Catalpa World
The tall catalpas bloomed in storm And catbirds filled the canopy With crying children, lost in snow: There was a child Who dared not go Under the catalpa snow. The […]