#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury #FreeVerse
Paterson lies in the valley under… its spent waters forming the outli… lies on his right side, head near… of the waters filling his dreams!… his dreams walk about the city whe…
They tell me on the morrow I must… This winter eyrie for a southern f… And truth to tell I tremble with… At thought of such unheralded repr… E’er have I known December in a w…
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
Nude bodies like peeled logs sometimes give off a sweetest odor, man and woman under the trees in full excess matching the cushion of
"Sweet land" at last! out of sea— the Venusremembering wavelets rippling with laughter—
An old willow with hollow branches slowly swayed his few high gright… and sang: Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood’s edge…
a trouble archaically fettered to produce E Pluribus Unum an island
The pure products of America go crazy— mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey
I gotta buy me a new girdle. (I’ll buy you one) O.K.
O—EH—lee! La—la! Donna! Donna! Blue is the sky of Palermo; Blue is the little bay; And dost thou remember the orange…
This particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely, safely, pleasantly a painful twitching of the eyelids or say a pe...
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,
Why pretend to remember the weather two years back? Why not? Listen close then repeat after others what they have just said and win a reputation for vivacity. Oh feed upon petals o...
Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! It is not a color. It is summer! It is the wind on a willow, the lap of waves, the shadow
The May sun—whom all things imitate— that glues small leaves to the wooden trees shone from the sky