In Chota Nagpur and Bengal the betrothed are tied with thread… mango trees, they marry the trees as well as one another, and the two trees marry each other.

The two oaks lean apart for light. They aren’t as strong as lone oaks but in a wind they give each other… Daily since I cleared them I can… them, tempting to chain saw and ax…

When they needed a foreign part, a valve which was not to be found or spared elsewhere in his ample, useful body, they chose a pig’s va… This will be compatible, they reas…

We need the ceremony of one anothe… meals served, more love, more handling of one another with… casting out of those who are not of our own household.

Limped out of the hot sky a hurt p… Held off, held off, whirring prett… Hit then and scuttled to a crooked… The stranger pilot who emerged—thi… War came suddenly here—talked to t…

Outside the hotel window, unenligh… weave and dive like Stukas on thei… apparently some tiny insect brothe… (In India, the attainment of nonv… is considered a proper goal for hu…

Going abruptly into a starry night It is ignorance we blink from, dar… There is a gaze of animal delight Before the human vision. Then, ar… To nebulous danger, we may look fo…

Combed by the cold seas, Bering a… These are the exile islands of the… All the charts and history you can… Will not make them real as the fog… Or crystal as a certain hour is cl…

We say the sea is lonely; better s… Ourselves are lonesome creatures w… Gives neither yes or no for compan… Oh, there are people, all right, s… It is as populous as Maine today–

In the tunnel of woods, as the roa… Winds up through the freckled ligh… Larger than life, crosses the road… He moves with the difficulty of re… Possum, armadillo, horseshoe crab.

He drives onto the grassy shoulder… his seat-belt. The aluminum buckle… He is watched from behind by two u… He thinks: strapped to things we d… helmeted for cycling and all the j…

Friends making off ahead of time on their own, I call that willful,… but that’s not judgement, only arg… such as we’ve had before. I watch a shaky man climb

Harnessed and zipped on a bright October day, having lied to his wi… Hazard jumps, and the silk spanks open, and he is falling safely. This is what for two years now

Climbing the stairway gray with ur… Cheerful, venial, ruminating pleas… Darkness takes me, an arm around m… Give me your wallet. Fearing cowardice more than other…

If you or I should die That day desire would not renew Itself in any bed. The old snake of the world, eterni… That holds his tail in his mouth,