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  • Eight Variations
            Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns,
            But that was quite some time ago.
    164 lines
  • 1926
    The porchlight coming on again,
    Early November, the dead leaves
    15 lines
  • A Distance From The Sea
    To Ernest Brace
    "And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was
    74 lines
  • A Musician's Wife
    Between the visits to the shock ward
    The doctors used to let you play
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • A Pastiche For Eve
    Unmanageable as history: these
    Followers of Tammuz to the land
    21 lines
  • Covering Two Years
    This nothingness that feeds upon itself:
    Pencils that turn to water in the hand,
    13 lines, 4 comments
  • 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
  • La Vita Nuova
    Last summer, in the blue heat,
    Over the beach, in the burning air,
    13 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 Beach
    Squat, unshaven, full of gas,
    Joseph Samuels, former clerk
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Bell From Europe
    The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church
    Rang out nostalgia for the refugee
    23 lines
  • The Doctor Will Return
    The surgical mask, the rubber teat
    Are singed, give off an evil smell.
    20 lines
  • The End Of The Library
    When the coal
    Gave out, we began
    19 lines
  • The Furies
    Not a third that walks beside me,
    But five or six or more.
    48 lines
  • The Smiles Of The Bathers
    The smiles of the bathers fade as they leave the water,
    And the lover feels sadness fall as it ends, as he leaves his love.
    12 lines
  • The Speakers
    "A equals X," says Mister One.
    "A equals B," says Mister Two.
    16 lines
  • The Upstairs Room
    It must have been in March the rug wore through.
    Now the day passes and I stare
    14 lines
  • Year's End
    The state cracked where they left your breath
    No longer instrument. Along the shore
    15 lines
  • Colloquy
    In the broken light, in owl weather,
    Webs on the lawn where the leaves end,
    17 lines
  • Round
    "Wondrous life!" cried Marvell at Appleton House.
    Renan admired Jesus Christ "wholeheartedly."
    24 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
  • 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
  • Lines For An Album
    Over the river and through the woods
    To grandmother’s house we go ...
    17 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
  • Relating To Robinson
    Somewhere in Chelsea, early summer;
    And, walking in the twilight toward the docks,
    48 lines
  • Robinson At Home
    Curtains drawn back, the door ajar.
    All winter long, it seemed, a darkening
    36 lines
  • Saratoga Ending
            Iron, sulphur, steam: the wastes
            Of all resorts like this have left thei
    45 lines
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