Poetry
Summer/Fall 1999
This Space
Rushing past us faster than this with a few glitches, everything you love, like a film in reverse. Can this fist in your skull hold all that? Like the leaves […]
Poetry
Summer/Fall 1999
The Word Though as a Coupler
Though is a thick syllable, a qualifier, a gate slowly opening, and can be rimmed with replaceable shark’s teeth. Or tongued although, may dance, bursting into esters, geometric pollen or […]
Poetry
Autumn 1956
Memoir
Out of the shadows from the lamp at night we’d see The lines of Braque on the walls, Or where the shadow cut across the books, the free Formality of […]
Poetry
Autumn 1956
Confusion in the Occident
Some were content to stint the Indian horde, And that dear seed, the wealth of poppies blown Floated to China through the Indian Sea. Lord So and So with his […]
Poetry
Autumn 1956
Ballet
Three who are one in blood Without the blessing of sun, Wade in the brake, a flood Down the hill, to run The pheasant cock, gamely hid, Male iridescence quelled […]
Poetry
Autumn 1956
When Wishes Were Fishes
Beyond your knees at Sailor’s Glass Boiled the kelp-smelling sea, There the wind galloped in the tough grass At the edge of the world, and our Sunday wish At the […]
Poetry
Summer 1953
Speculation
In the coolness here I care Not for the down pressed noises overhead, I hear in my pearly bone the wear Of marble under the rain; nothing is truly dead, […]
Poetry
Summer 1953
The Parents
Now I would say the fancier of my goods Had better be aware of second hand, Other decades. By the river of murder the woods Are airy green, and close […]