The Beach (Weldon Kees Poem)
Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened ...
Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened ...
When our moggy brings in moths, she squeaks through the kitchen, tips between her teeth, and scoots upstairs to scuff ...
You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery; ...
wandering around milan my father i know that (bred in the bone) i'm you i walk and think - my ...
up the ladder and round the bend age spirals like a convolvulus its bells break into the light catching breath ...
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,-- In my two hands tightly clasp'd I held it, Eagerly the sweet wine ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche, Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured; There he ...
WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; ...
In the empty field, in the morning, the body waits to be claimed. The spirit sits beside it, on a ...
The rain falling heavy on the autumnal tableau the vivid colors of autumn on the mums below Watering the fall ...
Live Christ, hold onto him like reaching into good soil with our hands instead of a trowel holding on tightly ...
Hold onto Christ like roots, like fingers, anchored deeply holding on tightly around good soil so we must be living ...
The flowers covering up those who petals like hands closing tightly against the heat others wilting in the sun drooping, ...
Wrapping us tightly yet moving with us the arms of the mist close by, with us still walking with us ...
Tightly wrapped, as she was so recently inside her mother's womb curled up in her father's arms matching bracelets, letting ...
The prescience, the foreknowledge allowing evil to profit so were the words of the Messiah before the meal in the ...
Flapping in the cold wind the grey skies, the feel of winter so soon the flagpole out of the small ...
Even in exile, in captivity, in prison in a foreign land we are to stand true, to be faithful to ...
In the beginning there was light, abundant light that truly lit the way, time was never lost in dodging flights ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
Walk here among the walking scepters. Learn inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave to bone this tightly if their hearts ...
He, who was born in stagnant year Does not remember own way. We, kids of Russia's years of fear, Remember ...
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely, As ...
SIR, as your mandate did request, I send you here a faithfu' list, O' gudes an' gear, an' a' my ...
I. I wanted the macabre plant holder hanging in Janet and Chrissy's apartment. My friend said her cousin tried to ...
The door is shut. She leaves the curtained office, And down the grey-walled stairs comes trembling slowly Towards the dazzling ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
I hear the oriole's always-grieving voice, And the rich summer's welcome loss I hear In the sickle's serpentine hiss Cutting ...
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