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  • The Carver
    See, as the carver carves a rose,
    A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye,
    28 lines
  • Nocturne Of Remembered Spring
    I.
    Moonlight silvers the tops of trees,
    124 lines
  • Hatteras Calling
    Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane
    shivers and moans upon its dripping pin,
    24 lines
  • Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain
    Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
    Let us discover some new alphabet,
    26 lines
  • A Letter From Li Po
    Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind
    announces autumn, and the equinox
    434 lines, 1 comment
  • Stage Direction
    It is a shabby backdrop of bright stars:
    one of the small interstices of time:
    30 lines
  • Annihilation
    While the blue noon above us arches,
    And the poplar sheds disconsolate leaves,
    38 lines
  • The Room
    Through that window—all else being extinct
    Except itself and me—I saw the struggle
    26 lines
  • The Window
    She looks out in the blue morning
    and sees a whole wonderful world
    36 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 08:
    The white fog creeps from the cold sea over the city,
    Over the pale grey tumbled towers,—
    16 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03:
    One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand,
    With wave upon slowly shattering wave,
    23 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 01:
    The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.
    The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:
    43 lines
  • From: Preludes for Memnon
    I read the primrose and the sea
                                &
    95 lines
  • God’s Acre
    In Memory Of. In Fondest Recollection Of.
    In Loving Memory Of. In Fond
    79 lines
  • Goya
    Goya drew a pig on a wall.
    The five-year-old hairdresser’s son
    69 lines
  • Herman Melville
    ‘My towers at last!’—
      What meant the word
    39 lines
  • How to Accompany The Moon Without Walking
    Harsh, harsh, the maram grass on the salt dune,
    seen by the cricket’s eye against the harbor moon,
    57 lines
  • Sea Holly
    Begotten by the meeting of rock with rock,
    The mating of rock and rock, rocks gnashing together;
    53 lines
  • Shaemus
    We will go no more to Shaemus, at the Nip,
    for sly innuendo and an Oporto Flip,
    39 lines
  • Summer
    Absolute zero: the locust sings:
    summer’s caught in eternity’s rings:
    27 lines
  • The Grasshopper
    Grasshopper
    grasshopper
    24 lines
  • The Things
    The house in Broad Street, red brick, with nine rooms
    the weedgrown graveyard with its rows of tombs
    93 lines
  • When You Are Not Surprised
    When you are not surprised, not surprised,
    nor leap in imagination from sunlight into shadow
    53 lines
  • Asphalt
    Light your cigarette, then, in this shadow,
    And talk to her, your arm engaged with hers.
    23 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02:
    One, from his high bright window in a tower,
    Leans out, as evening falls,
    28 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04:
    Up high black walls, up sombre terraces,
    Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of cliffs,
    39 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 05:
    The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . .
    It eddies around pale lilac lamps, and falls
    46 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06:
    Over the darkened city, the city of towers,
    The city of a thousand gates,
    147 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07:
    Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers
    The golden lights go out . . .
    87 lines
  • The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01:
    The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea.
    The walls and towers are warmed and gleam.
    28 lines
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