(1916)
#Americans #Modernism
A big young bareheaded woman in an apron Her hair slicked back standing on the street One stockinged foot toeing
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain
a trouble archaically fettered to produce E Pluribus Unum an island
I have had my dream—like others— and it has come to nothing, so tha… I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky—
I will teach you my towns… how to perform a funeral… for you have it over a tr… of artists— unless one should scour t…
THERE is a bird in the poplars— It is the sun! The leaves are little yellow fish Swimming in the river; The bird skims above them—
Oh strong—ridged and deeply hollow… nose of mine! what will you not be… What tactless asses we are, you an… always indiscriminate, always unas… and now it is the souring flowers…
Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house— boards for windows
The world begins again! Not wholly insufflated the blackbirds in the rain upon the dead topbranches of the living tree,
The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit of uselessness which delights them— all the exciting detail
When over the flowery, sharp pastu… edge, unseen, the salt ocean lifts its form—chicory and daisies tied, released, seem hardly flower… but color and the movement—or the…
The birches are mad with green poi… the wood’s edge is burning with th… burning, seething—No, no, no. The birches are opening their leav… by one. Their delicate leaves unfo…
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go
This plot of ground facing the waters of this inlet is dedicated to the living presenc… Emily Dickinson Wellcome who was born in England; married;
By constantly tormenting them with reminders of the lice in their children’s hair, the School Physician first brought their hatred down on him.
