#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury #FreeVerse
Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings— beating color up into it at a far edge,—beating it, beating…
Tho’ I’m no Catholic I listen hard when the bells in the yellow—brick tower of their new church ring down the leaves
Vast and grey, the sky is a simulacrum to all but him whose days are vast and grey and— In the tall, dried grasses
unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line
The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the hunt it is toward evening from the left
I lie here thinking of you:—— the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves,
Summer! the painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest
Her body is not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth ——nor so remote a thing. It is a field of the wild carrot taking the field by force; the grass
a burst of iris so that come down for breakfast we searched through the rooms for
A power-house in the shape of a red brick chair 90 feet high on the seat of which
She sits with tears on her cheek her cheek on her hand
Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated at and sang
I must tell you this young tree whose round and firm trunk between the wet pavement and the gutter
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
In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other’s a… seem still so that squirrels and colored bird…