Moonlight (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious ...
As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious ...
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene. Where, ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
"...a frozen memory, like any photo, where nothing is missing, not even, and especially, nothingness..." -- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up" ...
The twilight turns from amethyst To deep and deeper blue, The lamp fills with a pale green glow The trees ...
Cherry-ripe: dark sweet burlats, scarlet reverchons firm-fleshed and tart in the mouth bigarreaux, peach-and-white napoléons as the harvest moves north ...
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
Third Avenue in sunlight. Nature's error. Already the bars are filled and John is there. Beneath a plentiful lady over ...
By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue Towards her door I went, And sunset on her window-panes Reflected our intent. The creeper ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the ...
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay-- His insurance ...
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it ...
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on ...
(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...
OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden, Tell me what great sin have I committed, That thou keep'st me to the rack ...
The man held his hands to his heart as he danced. He slacked and swirled. The doorways of the little ...
Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof out my window across the street, a bird perched on the ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
That phrase, "healing a nation" kept going through my mind this morning thinking about the legacy, the model, the example ...
A cluster of 4 leaves at the end of a branch in October New England easier for the mind to ...
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow, the distinguishable flakes blowing sideways, looked like krill fleeing ...
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy, White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress, Fresh from the bathroom ...
The day begins to droop,-- Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun. The hazy ...
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets ...
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