Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems
#AmericanWriters #Modernism #1950 #Xaipe
i have loved,let us see if that’s… Bit into you as teeth,in the stone of a musical fruit. My lips pleas… on your taste. Jumped the quick w… of your smile into stupid gardens
Who threw the silver dollar up i… … lady who sews and grows every day… ing and that’s the truth,
Buffalo Bill ’s defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silve… …
hush) noones are coming out in the gloam ing together are
Humanity i love you because you would rather black the… success than enquire whose soul da… watch-chain which would be embarra… parties and because you
hist whist little ghostthings tip-toe twinkle-toe little twitchy
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
when faces called flowers float ou… and breathing is wishing and wishi… but keeping is downward and doubti… —it’s april(yes, april;my darling)… yes the pretty birds frolic as spr…
my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginni… of your smile)a skilful uncouth
when you went away it was morning (that is,big horses;light feeling… streets;heels taking derbies (wher… hurriedly hunched over swill;one b… trolley imposingly empty;snickerin…
III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window, into which people look(w…
who sharpens every dull here comes the only man reminding with his bell to disappear a sun and out of houses pour
i’ll tell you a dream i had once i… a bar the bar was made of brass ha… lying on the bar it was cOOl i di… Hot and the bar was COOl
your little voice Over the wires… and i felt suddenly dizzy With the jostling and shoutin…
