Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems
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as is the sea marvelous from god’s hands which sent her forth to sleep upon the world and the earth withers
suppose Life is an old man carrying flower… young death sits in a café smiling,a piece of money held betw… his thumb and first finger
i was considering how within night’s loose sack a star’s nibbling in- fin
Thy fingers make early flowers of all things. thy hair mostly the hours love: a smoothness which sings, saying
Doll’s boy ’s asleep under a stile he sees eight and twenty ladies in a line the first lady
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing… taste and smell and hearing and si… chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i p…
when i have thought of you somewha… much and am become perfectly and simply Lustful….sense a gradual st… of beginning muscle,and what it wi… to me before shutting….understand
will suddenly trees leap from wint… the stabbing music of your white y… wounded by my arms’ bothness (say a twilight lifting the fragil… of new leaves’ voices,and sharp li…
cruelly,love walk the autumn long; the last flower in whose hair, they lips are cold with songs for which is
there is a moon sole in the blue night amorous of waters
even a pencil has fear to do the posed body luckily made a pen is dreadfully afraid of her of this of the smile’s two eyes….too, since the world’s but
Picasso you give us things which bulge:grunting lungs pumped full o… you make us shrill
O Distinct Lady of my unkempt adoration if I have made a fragile curtain song under the window of your soul
i will be M o ving in the Street of her bodyfee 1 inga ro undMe the tr… lovely;muscles-sinke x p i r i… uddeni
Where’s Madge then, Madge and her men? buried with Alice in her hair, (but if you ask the rain