Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems
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Where’s Madge then, Madge and her men? buried with Alice in her hair, (but if you ask the rain
love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly
if i believe in death be sure of this it is because you have loved me,
III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window, into which people look(w…
of this wilting wall the colour dr… souring sunbeams,of a foetal fragr… to rickety unclosed blinds inslant… peregrinate,a cigar-stub disintegrates,above,underdrawers c…
i spoke to thee with a smile and thou didst not answer thy mouth is as a chord of crimson music
if learned darkness from our searc… should wrest the rare unwisdom of… and if thy hands flowers of silenc… upon a wish,to rapture should surp… my soul slowly which on thy beauty…
unto thee i burn incense the bowl crackles upon the gloom arise purple pencil… fluent spires of fragrance
nearer:breath of my breath:take no… limbs from me:make my pain their c… letting they tigers of smooth swee… slowly in dumb blossoms of new min… deeper:blood of my blood:with upwa…
If freckles were lovely, and day w… And measles were nice and a lie wa… Life would be delight,— But things couldn’t go right For in such a sad plight
little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest
hist whist little ghostthings tip—toe twinkle—toe little twitchy
a clown’s smirk in the skull of a… (where once good lips stalked or e… my mirror gives me on this afterno… i am a shape that can but eat and… ere with the dirt death shall him…
beyond the brittle towns asleep beyond the brittle towns asleep i look where stealing needles of f… in the last light thread the creeping shores
god gloats upon Her stunning flesh… the rechings of Her green body amo… unseen things, things obscene (Who… the caving ages curiously con) —but the lunge of Her hunger softl…