From the Roof (Denise Levertov Poem)
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore, rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head propped on The Meaning of Meaning. ...
(For Edward J. Wheeler) Within the Jersey City shed The engine coughs and shakes its head, The smoke, a plume ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. -- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue O my coy darling, still You ...
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches, repeats old ...
A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the ...
At her Junior High School graduation, she sings alone in front of the lot of us-- her voice soprano, surprising, ...
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
I saw her for a split second driving down Canal toward home off to the left almost over my shoulder ...
Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
The Whale is found in seas and oceans, Indulging there in fishlike motions, But Science shows that Whales are mammals, ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture ...
Some of us believe We would have conceived romantic Love out of our own passions With no precedents, Without songs ...
Why did he promise me that we would build ourselves an ark all by ourselves out in back of the ...
I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets ...
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