She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev’ning star That shone through the plate glass… From over Leamington Spa Beside her the lonely crochet

Knock knock! Who’s there? Me! Me who? That’s right!

Up, black, striped and demasked li… At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tai… Paraded the skunk. Night after ni… I expected her like a visitor. The refrigerator whinnied into sil…

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address… Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them.

Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.

The apes yawn and adore their flea… The parrots shriek as if they were… Like cheap tarts to attract the st… Fatigued with indolence, tiger and… Lie still as the sun. The boa-con…

The sun has come. The mist has gone. We see in the distance... our long way home. I was always yours to have.

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything that… Some people wrap their lies around… And you sit wondering

Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can’t we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself...

December Solstice A new beginning Life goes on on it’s own time Pushing on and on More sunlight each rising dawn

Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker.

All I know is a door into the dar… Outside, old axles and iron hoops… Inside, the hammered anvil’s short… The unpredictable fantail of spark… Or hiss when a new shoe toughens i…

WE’ RE foot—slog—slog—slog—slogg… Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over… (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up… There’s no discharge in the war! Seven—six—eleven—five—nine—an’—twe…

We wear the mask that grins and li… It shades our cheeks and hides our… This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subt…

It will not always be like this, The air windless, a few last Leaves adding their decoration To the trees’ shoulders, braiding… Of the boughs with gold; a bird pr…

Once upon a time, You and all your kind lived undern… Had ridges for ribs that dropped o… As if an excavation crew were hire… And while the world above you inve…

He is here, come down to look for… It is the song that calls you back… a song of joy and suffering equally: a promise: that things will be different up t…

I thought it would last my time— The sense that, beyond the town, There would always be fields and f… Where the village louts could clim… Such trees as were not cut down;

It was beautiful as God must be beautiful: glacial eyes that had looked on violence and come to terms with it; a body too huge

The useless dawn finds me in a des… Nights are proud waves; darkblue t… Nights have a habit of mysterious… The surge, that night, left me the… and odd ends: some hated friends t…

be happy Helios kisses Nyx along a quiet long trail canopy arches winter bare naked

On the grass when I arrive, Filling the stillness with life, But ready to scare off At the very first wrong move. In the ivy when I leave.

cold moon embers yes over and over again to life engage in the things you love renew

Whether he will go on singing or not, knowing what he knows of the horror of this world: He was not wandering among meadows all this time. He was down there

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

On the sheep-cropped summit, under… The mouse crouched, staring out th… It dared not take. Time and a world Too old to alter, the five mile pr…

least we can do we congregate we celebrate as we have always done the life of a dear departed Brothe… honor him we weep we pray

An escape from the pain Someplace soft to fall When the world knocks me down And the ground is hard. Decorated by the hearts

you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not

I climbed through woods in the hou… Evil air, a frost-making stillness… Not a leaf, not a bird,— A world cast in frost. I came out… Where my breath left tortuous stat…

When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big jok… A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke,

The pig, if I am not mistaken; Supplies us sausage, ham, and baco… Let others say his heart is big— I call it stupid of the pig.

fire made earth you walk on under your feet warm yet cold a winter discontent

I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place

Swerving east, from rich industria… And traffic all night north; swerv… Too thin and thistled to be called… And now and then a harsh—named hal… Workmen at dawn; swerving to solit…

The water turns a long way down over the raw stone… ice crusts around it We walk separately along the hill to the open

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching

Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ri… I saw in the evening The stars go over the lonely ocean…

Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.

Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break

In life’s vast sea, we often drift… Settle for less, giving others a l… Deceived by those with hearts untr… Yet still we rise, our spirits ren… From Florida’s warmth to Indiana’…

You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me. I was obedient, but

Tightly-folded bud, I have wished you something None of the others would: Not the usual stuff About being beautiful,

There are similarities I notice: that the hills which the eyes make flat as a wall… together, open as I move to let me through; become

winter wind then love comes along brought by the warm winter winds to dance with your soul forlorn moments of your day

I tripped on my shoelace And I fell up— Up to the roof tops, Up over the town, Up past the tree tops,

a bed fo’r king Ho Ho Ho ...they go Santa reindeers ...Rudolph go

Beating Heart A red rose with petal chambers and… Center of life in all of God’s ch… All creatures on planet earth... h… Does the simplest job... pump danc…

Snow Dragon Fire and Ice ‘Twas hot the fire tornado twistin… The spiral ground to the sky pirou… That burned the earth floor left

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the… of great price, the one field that…

I celebrate myself, and sing mysel… And what I assume you shall assum… For every atom belonging to me as… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observ…

dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around

There For You Look inside your heart Listen the songbirds

Unbiased at least he was when he a… Having never set eyes on the land… Between two peoples fanatically at… With their different diets and inc… “Time,” they had briefed him in L…

I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra

Love Alone Adoring Souls There can be no barriers For a soul to transcend another Between Eros inspired beings