#Americans #Modernism
The world begins again! Not wholly insufflated the blackbirds in the rain upon the dead topbranches of the living tree,
Beloved you are Caviar of Caviar Of all I love you best O my Japanese bird nest No herring from Norway
My wife’s new pink slippers have gay pompons. There is not a spot or a stain on their satin toes or their sides… All night they lie together
This particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely, safely, pleasantly a painful twitching of the eyelids or say a pe...
It is a willow when summer is over… a willow by the river from which no leaf has fallen nor bitten by the sun turned orange or crimson.
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
It is cold. The white moon is up among her scattered stars— like the bare thighs of the Police Sergeant’s wife—among her five children . . .
Again I reply to the triple winds running chromatic fifths of derisi… outside my window: Play louder. You will not succeed. I am
There were some dirty plates and a glass of milk beside her on a small table near the rank, disheveled bed— Wrinkled and nearly blind
In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other’s a… seem still so that squirrels and colored bird…
This is a slight stiff dance to a waking baby whose arms have been lying curled back above his head upon the pillow, making a flower—the eyes closed. Dead to the world! Waking is a...
They tell me on the morrow I must… This winter eyrie for a southern f… And truth to tell I tremble with… At thought of such unheralded repr… E’er have I known December in a w…
contend in a sea which the land pa… shielding them from the too—heavy… of an ungoverned ocean which when… tortures the biggest hulls, the be… to pit against its beatings, and s…
I feel the caress of my own finger… on my own neck as I place my colla… and think pityingly of the kind women I have known.
The rose is obsolete but each petal ends in an edge, the double facet cementing the grooved columns of air—The edge