Zeroing In (Denise Levertov Poem)
"I am a landscape," he said, "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape. There are daunting cliffs there, ...
"I am a landscape," he said, "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape. There are daunting cliffs there, ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe, I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible ...
Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that ...
Russia and America circle each other; Threats nudge an act that were without doubt A melting of the mould in ...
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...
Death and love love and death inexorably bound for twenty years now the day of love bound with your accident ...
Retracing steps, replaying in her mind moments of the day, a Saturday like all others that fall and no other ...
Clenched knuckles On my steering wheel A red light above me A black pickup - A wall before me No ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House -- And leave a Day at every Door A ...
We like a Hairbreadth 'scape It tingles in the Mind Far after Act or Accident Like paragraphs of Wind If ...
Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days -- Myself had just to earn ...
Life, and Death, and Giants -- Such as These -- are still -- Minor -- Apparatus -- Hopper of the ...
How many schemes may die In one short Afternoon Entirely unknown To those they most concern -- The man that ...
All look and likeness caught from earth All accident of kin and birth, Had pass'd away. There was no trace ...
If dead, we cease to be ; if total gloom Swallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fare As ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
How sweet and pleasant grows the way Through summer time again While Landrails call from day to day Amid the ...
THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout Fishing ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Twenty-first. Night. Monday. Silhouette of the capitol in darkness. Some good-for-nothing -- who knows why -- made up the tale ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay! With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array And your central ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.) Here's to the mice that scare the ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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