23 August 2012















1958
Driven and derided
By vanity in youth
In age by desire
Is nature most wanton
Is nature at the top of her reach
To jostle with the fore-acted unseen.

17 August 2012















1953
With chemical acuity
Heard the cicadas skeeting
Encircling fire twist
A bay of trees.
The dusk was startled.
Was there an electric
Pause,
The robins still?
Then as a top's nervous precession
Winded the sound down a circle of circles,
Down into an absence.
A bird flew to the silent tree.


02 August 2012





































1940
It is well to desire this
Construal of events:
Want is prologue to what's undone,
And the nameless future's
Given the name of one
That like a massy object curving space,
Bends brick and sky about a face
That knows this kindred perturbation.