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  • The Party
    The obscene hostess, mincing in the hall,
    Gathers the guests around a crystal ball.
    21 lines
  • What The Spider Heard
    Will there be time for eggnogs and eclogues
    In the place where we’re going?
    31 lines
  • To Build A Quiet City In His Mind
    To build a quiet city in his mind:
    A single overwhelming wish; to build,
    18 lines
  • To A Noisy Contemporary
    Your ego’s bad dream drums that vision
    Encountered on page one, pages three to eighty-nine.
    13 lines
  • Variations on a Theme by Joyce
    The war is in words and the wood is the world
    That turns beneath our rootless feet;
    19 lines
  • Problems Of A Journalist
    “I want to get away somewhere and re-read Proust,”
    Said an editor of Fortune to a man on Time.
    15 lines
  • The Conversation In The Drawing Room
    —That spot of blood on the drawing room wall,
    No larger than a thumbnail when I looked a moment ago,
    52 lines
  • Lines For An Album
    Over the river and through the woods
    To grandmother’s house we go ...
    17 lines
  • The Climate Of Danger
    The middle is the place to stand
    If there can be one solid spot,
    30 lines
  • Relating To Robinson
    Somewhere in Chelsea, early summer;
    And, walking in the twilight toward the docks,
    48 lines
  • Statement With Rhymes
    Plurality is all. I walk among the restaurants,
    the theatres, the grocery stores; I ride the cars
    23 lines
  • Testimonies
    “Others at their porches ...”
    40 lines
  • Girl At Midnight
    Then walk the floor, or twist upon your bed
    While bullets, cold and blind, rush backward from the target’s eye,
    34 lines
  • Year's End
    The state cracked where they left your breath
    No longer instrument. Along the shore
    15 lines
  • Saratoga Ending
            Iron, sulphur, steam: the wastes
            Of all resorts like this have left thei
    45 lines
  • Robinson At Home
    Curtains drawn back, the door ajar.
    All winter long, it seemed, a darkening
    36 lines
  • Aspects Of Robinson
    Robinson at cards at the Algonquin; a thin
    Blue light comes down once more outside the blinds.
    32 lines
  • For My Daughter
    Looking into my daughter’s eyes I read
    Beneath the innocence of morning flesh
    13 lines
  • Eight Variations
            Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns,
            But that was quite some time ago.
    164 lines
  • The Speakers
    "A equals X," says Mister One.
    "A equals B," says Mister Two.
    16 lines
  • The Doctor Will Return
    The surgical mask, the rubber teat
    Are singed, give off an evil smell.
    20 lines
  • A Pastiche For Eve
    Unmanageable as history: these
    Followers of Tammuz to the land
    21 lines
  • The Furies
    Not a third that walks beside me,
    But five or six or more.
    48 lines
  • Round
    "Wondrous life!" cried Marvell at Appleton House.
    Renan admired Jesus Christ "wholeheartedly."
    24 lines
  • Late Evening Song
    For a while
    Let it be enough:
    16 lines
  • Robinson
    The dog stops barking after Robinson has gone.
    His act is over. The world is a gray world,
    19 lines
  • The Bell From Europe
    The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church
    Rang out nostalgia for the refugee
    23 lines
  • Dead March
    Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene
    Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore,
    21 lines
  • Interregnum
    Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant,
    And leave him stinking in the square.
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Colloquy
    In the broken light, in owl weather,
    Webs on the lawn where the leaves end,
    17 lines
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