June Sick Room (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
The birds' shrill flutingBeats on the pink blind,Pierces the pink blindAt whose edge fumble the sun'sFingers till one obtrudesAnd stirs ...
A. S. J. Tessimond Poems (83 Poems)
Empty Room (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax.The clock's voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats.The clock insists: a lecturer demonstrating,Loudly, with finger ...
Don Juan (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Under the lips and limbs, the embraces, faces,Under the sharp circumference, the brightness,Under the fence of shadows,Is something I am ...
Cocoon For A Skeleton (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Clothes: to composeThe furtive, lonePillar of boneTo some repose.To let hands shirkUtterance behindA pocket's blindDeceptive smirk.To mask, belieThe undue hasteOf ...
Black On Black (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Serrations of chimneysStone-black perforateVelvet-black dark.A tree coils in core of darkness.My swingingHandsIncise the night.A man slips into a doorway,Black hole ...
Wet City Night (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Light drunkenly reels into shadow;Blurs, slurs uneasily;Slides off the eyeballs:The segments shatter.Tree-branches cut arc-light in raggedFluttering wet strips.The cup of ...
Never (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Suddenly, desperatelyI thought, "No, neverIn millions of minutesCan I for one secondCalm-leaving my own selfLike clothes on a chair-backAnd quietly ...
Seaport (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Green sea-tarnished copperAnd sea-tarnished goldOf cupolas.Sea-runnelled streetsChannelled by salt airThat wears the white stone.The sunlight-filled cisternOf a dry-dock. Square shadows.Sun-slatted ...
Polyphony In A Cathedral (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Music curlsIn the stone shellsOf the arches, and ringsTheir stone bells.Music lipsEach cold grooveOf parabolas' lacedWarp and woof,And lingers round ...
Birch Tree (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
The birch tree in winterLeaning over the secret poolIs Narcissus in loveWith the slight white branches,The slim trunk,In the dark ...
Epitaph For Our Children (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;Playing their blind-man's-bluff ...
Cocoon For A Skeleton (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Clothes: to compose The furtive, lone Pillar of bone To some repose. To let hands shirk Utterance behind A pocket's ...
To Be Blind (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Is it sounds converging, Sounds nearing, Infringement, impingement, Impact, contact With surfaces of the sounds Or surfaces without the sounds: ...
Tube Station (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
The tube lift mounts, sap in a stem, And blossoms its load, a black, untidy rose. The fountain of the ...
One Almost Might (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Wouldn't you say, Wouldn't you say: one day, With a little more time or a little more patience, one might ...
The British (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
We are a people living in shells and moving Crablike; reticent, awkward, deeply suspicious; Watching the world from a corner ...
Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
We expected the violin's finger on the upturned nerve; Its importunate cry, too laxly curved: And you drew us an ...
Cats (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Cats no less liquid than their shadows Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat through loopholes Less ...
Never (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Suddenly, desperately I thought, "No, never In millions of minutes Can I for one second Calm-leaving my own self Like ...
Chaplin (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
The sun, a heavy spider, spins in the thirsty sky. The wind hides under cactus leaves, in doorway corners. Only ...
Day Dream (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, And loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, And ...
Unlyric Love Song (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first: To offer you now at last my least ...
Earthfast (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Architects plant their imagination, weld their poems on rock, Clamp them to the skidding rim of the world and anchor ...
June Sick Room (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
The birds' shrill fluting Beats on the pink blind, Pierces the pink blind At whose edge fumble the sun's Fingers ...
Epitaph For Our Children (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos; Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear; Playing ...
Seaport (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Green sea-tarnished copper And sea-tarnished gold Of cupolas. Sea-runnelled streets Channelled by salt air That wears the white stone. The ...
Black On Black (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Serrations of chimneys Stone-black perforate Velvet-black dark. A tree coils in core of darkness. My swinging Hands Incise the night. ...
Symphony In Red (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Within the church The solemn priests advance, And the sunlight, stained by the heavy windows, Dyes a yet richer red ...
Black Morning Lovesong (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
In love's dances, in love's dances One retreats and one advances, One grows warmer and one colder, One more hesitant, ...
Sea (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
1 (Windless Summer) Between the glass panes of the sea are pressed Patterns of fronds, and the bronze tracks of ...