Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems
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my sonnet is A light goes on in the toiletwindow,that’s straightac… my window,night air bothered with… sort of sublimated tom-tom which quite outdoes the mandolin-
Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups … dandelions And the big bullying daisies
notice the convulsed orange inch o… perching on this silver minute of… We’ll choose the way to the forest… to you,white town whose spires sof… Will take the houseless wisping ru…
Thy fingers make early flowers of all things. thy hair mostly the hours love: a smoothness which sings, saying
and this day it was Spring….us drew lewdly the murmurous minute c… smelloftheworld. We intricately alive,cleaving the luminous stamme… (eagerly just not each other touch…
as is the sea marvelous from god’s hands which sent her forth to sleep upon the world and the earth withers
you asked me to come:it was rainin… and the spring;a clumsy brightness… wonderfully stumbled above the squ… little amorous-tadpole people wigg… battered by stuttering pearl,
this out of within itself moo ving lump of twilight squirts a tw… ne like nothing verdi slightly knu as and some six cents hit the whig… shaped hathole thangew yelps one s…
a wind has blown the rain away and… the sky away and all the leaves aw… and the trees stand. I think i to… autumn too long (and what have y…
when faces called flowers float ou… and breathing is wishing and wishi… but keeping is downward and doubti… —it’s april(yes, april;my darling)… yes the pretty birds frolic as spr…
there is a moon sole in the blue night amorous of waters
spring omnipotent goddess thou dos… inveigle into crossing sidewalks t… unwary june-bug and the frivolous… thou dost persuade to serenade his lady the musical tom-cat,thou stuf…
the wind is a Lady with bright slender eyes(who moves)at sunset and who—touches—the hills without any reason
I will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burn… I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive
the hills like poets put on purple thought against the magnificent clamor of