Poetry
Spring 1956
Knowledge of Age
Knowledge of age Begins in winter, a thin-railed whistling gate Under sonorous pines, A few shivering paces, and so far, From the stone house and all its hearths. A slow […]
Poetry
Spring 1956
The Apex Animal
A Horse, thin-colored as oranges ripened in freight-cars which have shaken casements through the miles of night across three nights of field and waterfront warehouses—Rather, the narrow Head of the […]
Poetry
Spring 1956
From a Provincial
Bent postcards come from Interlaken In August, the tired emperor of the year; On evening tables Midges survey their planes of brief discovery At a half-run. In Milton’s candle’s light […]
Poetry
Spring 1956
New Year’s Poem
The Christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle Along the windowledge. A solitary pearl Shed from the necklace spilled at last week’s party Lies in the suety, snow-luminous plainness Of morning, […]