The brightly-painted horse Had a boy’s face, And four small wheels Under his feet, Plus a long string

Enter without knocking, hard-worki… I’m just sitting here mulling over What to do this dark, overcast day… It was a night of the radio turned… Fitful sleep, vague, troubling dre…

Boss of all bosses of the universe… Mr. know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, w… And whatever else you’re good at. Go ahead, shuffle your zeros tonig… Dip in ink the comets’ tails.

St. John of the Cross wore dark g… As he passed me on the street. St. Theresa of Avila, beautiful a… Turned her back on me. “Soulmate,” they hissed. “It’s hi…

You must come to them sideways In rooms webbed in shadow, Sneak a view of their emptiness Without them catching A glimpse of you in return.

I liked my little hole, Its window facing a brick wall. Next door there was a piano. A few evenings a month a crippled old man came to play

The mad and homeless take shelter Against the cold weather In tombs of the fabulously rich, Where they huddle in their rags And make themselves scarce only

Father studied theology through th… And this was exam time. Mother knitted. I sat quietly wit… Full of pictures. Night fell. My hands grew cold touching the fa…

Of the light in my room: Its mood swings, Dark-morning glooms, Summer ecstasies. Spider on the wall,

Great are the Hittites. Their ears have mice and mice have… Their dogs bury themselves and lea… To guard the house. A single weed… Until the spiderwebs spread over t…

How much death works, No one knows what a long Day he puts in. The little Wife always alone Ironing death’s laundry.

Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.

Executioner happy to explain How his wristwatch works As he shadows me on the street. I call him that because he is grim… And wears black.

In my great grandmother’s time, All one needed was a broom To get to see places And give the geese a chase in the… •

This last continent Still to be discovered. My hand is dreaming, is building Its ship. For crew it takes A pack of bones, for food