A Wicker Basket Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively...
Even the sky here in Connecticut has it, That wry look of accomplished conspiracy, The look of those who've gotten away With a petty but regular w...
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking...
It isn't how we look up close so much as in dreams. Our giant is not so tall, our lizard boy merely flaunts crusty skin- not his fault they keep h...
Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I won't be mortified by what I drive or the flaccid vivacity of my last dinner p...
Above the fire a man floats in a boat. Above the fire a woman is devoured by a snake, unseen. The leaves are yellow alongside & in the wake the tr...
Translated by Henry Israeli The moon nicotine of a kiss. . . A sideways glance like the mast of a pirate ship beyond a distant island...
I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay After one more night of erosion and nearer the grave, Then stand and gaze from the window at break of...
I do not know more than the Sea tells me, told me long ago, or I overheard Her telling distant roar upon the sands, waves of meaning in the cradle of ...
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating the obvious, Not proclaiming our fall but begging us In God's n...