Midas watched the golden crust That formed over his steaming sore… Hugged his agues, loved his lust, But damned to hell the out-of-door… Where blazing motes of sun impaled

The florist was told, cyclamen or… White in either case, for you are… As they are, “blooming early and p… Though the azalea grows in sandier… Needing less care; while cyclamen’…

Remembering the past And gloating at it now, I know the frozen brow And shaking sides of lust Will dog me at my death

Last night I dreamed I ran throug… Looking for help for you, Nicanor… But my few friends who are rich or… were temporarily absent from their… They had gone to the opera, or flo…

From Sappho to myself, consider t… How unwomanly to discuss it! Like… The clinical sobriquet hangs us: c… Never mind these epithets; I myse… Juvenal set us apart in denouncing…

My mother—preferring the strange t… Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog’s belly distended with finny… Leaf-mold wilderness, harebell, to… Odd, small snakes roving through t…

For more than thirty years we hadn… I remembered the bright query of y… That single-minded look, intense a… Yet most important –how could I f… Was what your taught me inadvertan…

After you left me forever, I was broken into pieces, and all the pieces flung into the… Then the legs crawled ashore and aimlessly wandered the dusty c…

Arms and the girl I sing - O rare arms that are braceleted and white… arms that were lovely Helen’s, in… Greek slaughtered Trojan. Helen w… Scape-nanny call her; wars for tur…

The whole green sky is dying.The… With a great burst of supernatural… Under a canopy of poisonous airs. Could we imagine our return to pra… To end in time before time’s final…

In the laboratory waiting room containing one television actor with a teary… trying a contact lens; two muscular victims of industrial…

At Samoa, hardly unpacked, I comm… When I’d opened the chicken crate… The Reverend Mr. Claxton called,… My clothes torn, my hair in a wad,… I had started the buffalo grass in…

for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children… More ladylike than we have ever be… Some of ours look older than we fe… How did they appear in their long…

When from his cave, young Mao in… A work to renew old China first d… Then he alone interpreted the law, and from tradtional fountains scor… But when to examine every part he…

The poets are going home now, After the years of exile, After the northern climates Where they worked, lectured, remem… Where they shivered at night