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Mr T. bareheaded in a soiled undershirt his hair standing out on all sides
It was an icy day. We buried the cat, then took her box and set fire to it in the back yard.
At ten AM the young housewife moves about in negligee behind the wooden walls of her husband’s… I pass solitary in my car. Then again she comes to the curb
Not because of his eyes, the eyes of a bird, but because he is beaked, birdlike, to do an injury, has the turtle attracted you.
unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line
Snow falls: years of anger following hours that float idly down — the blizzard drifts its weight
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire
Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains— Smell of cleanliness— Sunshine of late afternoon—
Love is twain, it is not single, Gold and silver mixed to one, Passion 'tis and pain which ming… Glist’ring then for aye undone. Pain it is not; wondering pity
Fools have big wombs. For the rest?—here is pennyroyal if one knows to use it. But time is only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there’l...
In Brueghel’s great picture, The… the dancers go round, they go roun… around, the squeal and the blare a… tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and f… tipping their bellies (round as th…
The over-all picture is winter icy mountains in the background the return from the hunt it is toward evening from the left
It is a willow when summer is over… a willow by the river from which no leaf has fallen nor bitten by the sun turned orange or crimson.
The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls
beauty is a shell from the sea where she rules triumphant till love has had its way with her scallops and