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  • I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
    Whatever I see I swallow immediately
    18 lines, 38 comments
  • Through portico of my elegant house you stalk
    With your wild furies, disturbing garlands of fruit
    15 lines, 4 comments
  • You do not do, you do not do
    Any more, black shoe
    80 lines, 19 comments
  • There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself-
    Infinite, green, utterly untouchable.
    22 lines, 5 comments
  • The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve.
    On their blotter of fog the trees
    15 lines, 3 comments
  • They enter as animals from the outer
    Space of holly where spikes
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • Love, the world
    Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • The hills step off into whiteness.
    People or stars
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • The night is only a sort of carbon paper,
    Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
    35 lines, 3 comments
  • Stasis in darkness.
    Then the substanceless blue
    31 lines, 8 comments
  • Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
    I want to fill it with color and ducks,
    12 lines, 5 comments
  • In Benidorm there are melons,
    Whole donkey-carts full
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • How this tart fable instructs
    And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap
    52 lines, 1 comment
  • Compelled by calamity's magnet
    They loiter and stare as if the house
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Spry, wry, and gray as these March sticks,
    Percy bows, in his blue peajacket, among the narcissi.
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
    Cold as snow breath, it tamps the womb
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • Since Christmas they have lived with us,
    Guileless and clear,
    31 lines, 2 comments
  • I am a miner. The light burns blue.
    Waxy stalactites
    55 lines, 1 comment
  • A dream tree, Polly's tree:
    a thicket of sticks,
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • The woman is perfected
    Her dead
    20 lines, 7 comments
  • I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root;
    It is what you fear.
    42 lines, 3 comments
  • I have done it again.
      One year in every ten
    110 lines, 16 comments
  • Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
    The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
    Nor the woman in the ambulance
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Mother, mother, what ill-bred aunt
    Or what disfigured and unsightly
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • Clownlike, happiest on your hands,
    Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs,
    Eyes rolled by white sticks,
    43 lines, 2 comments
  • Kindness glides about my house.
    Dame Kindness, she is so nice!
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • The day she visited the dissecting room
    They had four men laid out, black as burnt turkey,
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • As the gods began one world, and man another,
    So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • What a thrill -
    My thumb instead of an onion.
    45 lines, 15 comments
  • Not easy to state the change you made.
    If I'm alive now, then I was dead,
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Now this particular girl
    During a ceremonious april walk
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries,
    Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly,
    27 lines, 3 comments
  • Axes
    After whose stroke the wood rings,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • "This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
    The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
    30 lines, 4 comments
  • On the stiff twig up there
    Hunches a wet black rook
    48 lines, 2 comments
  • The horizons ring me like faggots,
    Tilted and disparate, and always unstable.
    45 lines, 1 comment
  • This is the easy time, there is nothing doing.
    I have whirled the midwife's extractor,
    50 lines
  • (Rock Lake, Canada)
    In this country there is neither measure nor balance
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
    Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in
    63 lines, 12 comments
  • The engine is killing the track, the track is silver,
    It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless.
    34 lines, 1 comment
  • A Poem for Three Voices
    Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about
    394 lines
  • They are always with us, the thin people
    Meager of dimension as the gray people
    47 lines, 8 comments
  • The photographic chamber of the eye
    records bare painted walls, while an electric light
    51 lines, 1 comment
  • Somebody is shooting at something in our town --
    A dull pom, pom in the Sunday street.
    60 lines
  • With white frost gone
    And all green dreams not worth much,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Bare-handed, I hand the combs.
    The man in white smiles, bare-handed,
    60 lines, 2 comments
  • These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
    They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
    15 lines, 2 comments
  • Color of lemon, mango, peach,
    These storybook villas
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Out here there are no hearthstones,
    Hot grains, simply.  It is dry, dry.
    26 lines
  • To his house the bodiless
    Come to barter endlessly
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
    You leave the same impression
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • Day of mist: day of tarnish
    with hands
    23 lines, 2 comments
  • In ruck and quibble of courtfolk
    This giant hulked, I tell you, on her scene
    25 lines
  • Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit.
    RACINE
    52 lines, 2 comments
  • Jade --
    Stone of the side,
    57 lines
  • Among orange-tile rooftops
    and chimney pots
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line
    Ousts mistier peers and thrives, murderous,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering
    Head alone shows you in the prodigious act
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • It happens. Will it go on? ----
    My mind a rock,
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • A smile fell in the grass.
    Irretrievable!
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • The air is a mill of hooks --
    Questions without answer,
    31 lines, 2 comments
  • Overnight, very
    Whitely, discreetly,
    33 lines, 2 comments
  • It is no night to drown in:
    A full moon, river lapsing
    36 lines
  • Viciousness in the kitchen!
    The potatoes hiss.
    92 lines, 2 comments
  • I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
    With tigery stripes, and a face on it
    26 lines
  • From my rented attic with no earth
    To call my own except the air-motes,
    16 lines
  • I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now:
    This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one,
    56 lines
  • But I would rather be horizontal.
    I am not a tree with my root in the soil
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Old goatherds swear how all night long they hear
    The warning whirr and burring of the bird
    14 lines
  • Pocket watch, I tick well.
    The streets are lizardly crevices
    32 lines
  • Old man, you surface seldom.
    Then you come in with the tide's coming
    45 lines
  • Haunched like a faun, he hooed
    From grove of moon-glint and fen-frost
    15 lines
  • Blameless as daylight I stood looking
    At a field of horses, necks bent, manes blown,
    30 lines
  • The day you died I went into the dirt,
    Into the lightless hibernaculum
    49 lines
  • In the rectory garden on his evening walk
    Paced brisk Father Shawn.  A cold day, a sodden one it was
    58 lines
  • The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf?
    It is not mine. Do not accept it.
    18 lines
  • Color floods to the spot, dull purple.
    The rest of the body is all washed-out,
    12 lines
  • I shall never get you put together entirely,
    Pieced, glued, and properly jointed.
    30 lines
  • This is winter, this is night, small love --
    A sort of black horsehair,
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • The black bull bellowed before the sea.
    The sea, till that day orderly,
    26 lines
  • Mayday: two came to field in such wise :
    `A daisied mead', each said to each,
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • (1)
    This is the sea, then, this great abeyance.
    133 lines, 1 comment
  • Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers----
    The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees.
    55 lines
  • I ordered this, clean wood box
    Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • First, are you our sort of a person?
    Do you wear
    40 lines, 4 comments
  • The smile of iceboxes annihilates me.
    Such blue currents in the veins of my loved one!
    18 lines, 4 comments
  • Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
    Where do the black trees go that drink here?
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Two, of course there are two.
    It seems perfectly natural now——
    31 lines
  • Pure? What does it mean?
    The tongues of hell
    54 lines, 1 comment
  • Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone,
    plunges headlong into that black pond
    15 lines, 2 comments
  • The Sunday lamb cracks in its fat.
    The fat
    22 lines, 8 comments
  • I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
    An elephant, a ponderous house,
    10 lines, 4 comments
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