A. S. J. Tessimond Poems (83 Poems)

Meeting (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.Snakes, no ...

Houses (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

People who are afraid of themselvesMultiply themselves into familiesAnd so divide themselvesAnd so become less afraid.People who might have to ...

Any Man Speaks (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

I, after difficult entry through my mother's bloodAnd stumbling childhood (hitting my head against the world);I, intricate, easily unshipped, untracked, ...

Cats (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

Cats no less liquid than their shadowsOffer no angles to the wind.They slip, diminished, neat through loopholesLess than themselves; will ...

Cinema Screen (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

Light's patterns freeze:Frost on our faces.Light's pollen siftsThrough the lids of our eyes…Light sinks and rustsIn water; is brokenBy glass… ...

Night Piece (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

Climb, claim your shelf-room, farPacked from inquisitive moonAnd cold contagious stars.Lean out, but look no longer,No further, than to stirNight ...

Music (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

This shape without space,This pattern without stuff,This stream without dimensionSurrounds us, flows through us,But leaves no mark.This message without meaning,These ...

Cats 1 (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

To walk as you walk, green eye, smiler, notEven ostentatiously alone but simplyAlone… arching the back in courteous discourtesy,Gathering the ...

Quickstep (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

Acknowledge the drum's whisper.Yield to its velvetNudge. Cut a slow air-Curve. Then dip (hip to hip):Sway, swing, pedanticallyPoise. Now recover,Converting ...

Sea (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)

1             (Windless Summer)Between the glass panes of the sea are pressedPatterns of fronds, and ...

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