How much death works, No one knows what a long Day he puts in. The little Wife always alone Ironing death’s laundry.

This last continent Still to be discovered. My hand is dreaming, is building Its ship. For crew it takes A pack of bones, for food

Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heaven… What they thought about Stayed the same,

And the one that’s got it in for y… Mister, that keeps taunting you In an old man’s morning wheeze Every time you so much as glance a… Or blurt something in your defense…

Father studied theology through th… And this was exam time. Mother knitted. I sat quietly wit… Full of pictures. Night fell. My hands grew cold touching the fa…

The brightly-painted horse Had a boy’s face, And four small wheels Under his feet, Plus a long string

In my great grandmother’s time, All one needed was a broom To get to see places And give the geese a chase in the… •

Executioner happy to explain How his wristwatch works As he shadows me on the street. I call him that because he is grim… And wears black.

Of the light in my room: Its mood swings, Dark-morning glooms, Summer ecstasies. Spider on the wall,

The obvious is difficult To prove. Many prefer The hidden. I did, too. I listened to the trees. They had a secret

Boss of all bosses of the universe… Mr. know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, w… And whatever else you’re good at. Go ahead, shuffle your zeros tonig… Dip in ink the comets’ tails.

You give the appearance of listeni… To my thoughts, o trees, Bent over the road I am walking On a late summer evening When every one of you is a steep s…

On the road with billowing poplars… In a country flat and desolate To the far-off gray horizon, where… A man and a woman went on foot, Each carrying a small suitcase.

A world’s disappearing. Little street, You were too narrow, Too much in the shade already. You had only one dog,

Where the path to the lake twists… A puff of dust, the kind bare feet… Is what I saw in the dying light, Night swooping down everywhere els… A low branch heavy with leaves