Up, black, striped and demasked li… At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tai… Paraded the skunk. Night after ni… I expected her like a visitor. The refrigerator whinnied into sil…
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address… Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them.
The apes yawn and adore their flea… The parrots shriek as if they were… Like cheap tarts to attract the st… Fatigued with indolence, tiger and… Lie still as the sun. The boa-con…
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev’ning star That shone through the plate glass… From over Leamington Spa Beside her the lonely crochet
Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can’t we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself...
Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker.
The sun has come. The mist has gone. We see in the distance... our long way home. I was always yours to have.
All I know is a door into the dar… Outside, old axles and iron hoops… Inside, the hammered anvil’s short… The unpredictable fantail of spark… Or hiss when a new shoe toughens i…
I thought it would last my time— The sense that, beyond the town, There would always be fields and f… Where the village louts could clim… Such trees as were not cut down;
He is here, come down to look for… It is the song that calls you back… a song of joy and suffering equally: a promise: that things will be different up t…
The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything that… Some people wrap their lies around… And you sit wondering
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching
I thought that I could not be hur… I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering— immune to pain or agony.
WE’ RE foot—slog—slog—slog—slogg… Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over… (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up… There’s no discharge in the war! Seven—six—eleven—five—nine—an’—twe…
We wear the mask that grins and li… It shades our cheeks and hides our… This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subt…
The dog loved its churlish life, Scraps, thefts. Itsdeclined blood An anarchy of mindless pride. Nobody’s pet, but good enough To double with a bitch as poor.
loving sardines... ode to St Pete… the sun kisses the moon along a serene trinity road to a congress of sardiniers cold naked white landscape gone
What is reality? I am a plaster doll; I pose with eyes that cut open without la… upon some shellacked and grinning… eyes that open, blue, steel, and c…
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
The useless dawn finds me in a des… Nights are proud waves; darkblue t… Nights have a habit of mysterious… The surge, that night, left me the… and odd ends: some hated friends t…
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Swerving east, from rich industria… And traffic all night north; swerv… Too thin and thistled to be called… And now and then a harsh—named hal… Workmen at dawn; swerving to solit…
There are similarities I notice: that the hills which the eyes make flat as a wall… together, open as I move to let me through; become
On the sheep-cropped summit, under… The mouse crouched, staring out th… It dared not take. Time and a world Too old to alter, the five mile pr…
The pig, if I am not mistaken; Supplies us sausage, ham, and baco… Let others say his heart is big— I call it stupid of the pig.
I could tell you About every time I’ve broken my o… And then pointed to the emptiness… I could explain How I’ve been given everything I’…
To step over the low wall that div… Road from concrete walk above the… Brings sharply back something know… The miniature gaiety of seasides. Everything crowds under the low ho…
Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ri… I saw in the evening The stars go over the lonely ocean…
You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me. I was obedient, but
I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place
He’s that cat Not too skinny, not too fat Not a care in the world, but to ma… The ladies call him a sweetheart And the guys are jealous of his ar…
When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big jok… A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke,
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I feel great. I feel bad. You’re a piece of shit. You’re so rad. You’re my heaven. You’re my hell. You’re my freedom. You’re my jail. You’re my strength. You’re my weakness. You’re my s...
Where did we fall off?? When you left?? Was it me?? Is it the flesh?? The tide has turned, and lately it’s for the worst, my pride is all gone, I have no reason to boast. What are you t...
The saga of an endless tale, The events of a concatenated chain… Played on this stage time and agai… And recited over and over again! The bark breaks to give the way to…
It will not always be like this, The air windless, a few last Leaves adding their decoration To the trees’ shoulders, braiding… Of the boughs with gold; a bird pr…
I have a bit of writer’s block, My mind is clogged with cinder roc… These mediocre happenings have put… So brave to say, I gave away,
At this moment in time, we’d like to invite First Class passengers only to board the aircraft. We now extend our invitation to Exclusive, Superior, Privilege and Excelsior members, foll...
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the… of great price, the one field that…
I feel it again, The cold seeping into my veins, Like dry ice, My heart hurts so much, I can’t bear to cry
At times, when I wasn’t morale an… There was someone who told me to b… He knows my ability, And helps me find tranquility! I was his protégé.
You are a rock, Maybe you never understood this bu… The meaning behind every move not… But felt Feelings are so submissive
The pen to paper you touch is icho… so divine. Create! The slightest pressure from you ha… Create!
Time when the pall of gloom slowly… When the haze of misery slowly sta… And the vision started growing blu… When the movements of the body sta… And the senses started falling apa…
The water turns a long way down over the raw stone… ice crusts around it We walk separately along the hill to the open
Looking ahead Sitting on your front porch you did not look back... musing you crossed many rivers recalling comfortably on your adirondack
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
On the grass when I arrive, Filling the stillness with life, But ready to scare off At the very first wrong move. In the ivy when I leave.
I don’t want better because there isn’t better. When I see you’re face, it’s a new hope. Episode 4, it feels like i’ve been here before. I want to chill watch Star Wars on a day that we...
Part I. A couple old sat o’er the fire, And they were bent and gray; They burned the charcoal for their… Who lived long leagues away.
You don’t have to fight this alone I will stand with you I will sit with you I will lay with you when there is… To stand or sit anymore
I have not ever seen my father’s g… Not that his judgment eyes have been forgotten nor his great hands’ print on our evening doorknobs
Sitting on a river bed with little… Speaking in different tongue, only… children of the Moon will come, we… Carrying all of our welcomed frien… Speaking in different tongue, only…
My poetry is so deep that if you pay close attention you can feel the pain i’ve been through, if you listen to it carefully you could listen to the bullets i’ve taken directly into my h...
Unbiased at least he was when he a… Having never set eyes on the land… Between two peoples fanatically at… With their different diets and inc… “Time,” they had briefed him in L…
Two roads diverged in a yellow woo… And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I c… To where it bent in the undergrowt…
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
