With only his dim lantern To tell him where he is And every time a mountain Of fresh corpses to load up Take them to the other side

Fingers in an overcoat pocket. Fingers sticking out of a black leather glove. The nails chewed raw. One play is called “Thieves’ Market,” another “Night in a Dime Museum.” The fingers w...

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

The mad and homeless take shelter Against the cold weather In tombs of the fabulously rich, Where they huddle in their rags And make themselves scarce only

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

The one who had been whispering All along in this empty theater And whose voice I just heard— Or imagined I did Distracted as I was by my own tho…

I liked my little hole, Its window facing a brick wall. Next door there was a piano. A few evenings a month a crippled old man came to play

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… •

As an ant is powerless Against a raised boot, And only has an instant To have a bright idea or two. The black boot so polished,

Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like a police-whistle

A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I… in the white? Walt Whitman One

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…

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

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.

One shows me how to lie down in a… Another how to slip my hand under… Another how to kiss with a mouth f… Another how to catch fireflies in… Here is a stable with a single bla…