#Americans #Modernism
my sonnet is A light goes on in the toiletwindow,that’s straightac… my window,night air bothered with… sort of sublimated tom-tom which quite outdoes the mandolin-
in Just- spring when the world is… luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and…
my girl’s tall with hard long eyes as she stands,with her long hard h… silence on her dress,good for slee… is her long hard body filled with… like a white shocking wire, when s…
(one!) the wisti-twisti barber -pole is climbing people high,up-in tenements talk.in sawdust Voices
three wealthy sisters swore they’d… Soul was(i understand) seduced by Life;whose brother marr… now Mrs Death. Poor Mind
10 maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach(to play one… and maggie discovered a shell that… so sweetly she couldn’t remember h…
XXX i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at wa… a conscientious object—or his wellbelovéd colonel(trig
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of
I like my body when it is with you… body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it… i like its hows. i like to feel t…
Doll’s boy ’s asleep under a stile he sees eight and twenty ladies in a line the first lady
Who threw the silver dollar up i… … lady who sews and grows every day… ing and that’s the truth,
somewhere i have never travelled,… any experience, your eyes have the… in your most frail gesture are thi… or which i cannot touch because th… your slightest look easily will un…
pieces(in darker than small is dirtiest any city’s least street)of mirror lying are each(why
if learned darkness from our searc… should wrest the rare unwisdom of… and if thy hands flowers of silenc… upon a wish,to rapture should surp… my soul slowly which on thy beauty…
Where’s Madge then, Madge and her men? buried with Alice in her hair, (but if you ask the rain