such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,,,such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,such and so many blinding bright lights,, ,splashing all over the pagesin a million bits and piecesall of which were words, words, words,and each of which were alive foreverin its own delight and glory and oddity and light.
Man dry man,Dry lover mineThe deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor,Should he, for centre sake, hop in the dust,Forsake, the fool, the hardiness of anger.NowSay nay,Sir no say,Death to the yes,the yes to death, the yesman and the answer,Should he who split his children with a cureHave brotherless his sister on the handsaw.NowSay nay,No…
Lay the gold tithings barren,Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils;Theire in their heat the winter floodsOf frozen loves they fetch their girls,And drown the cargoed apples in their tides.These boys of light are curdlers in their folly,Sour the boiling honey;The jacks of frost they finger in the hives;There in the sun the frigid…
Bent like a beast to lap the singular floodsIn a land strapped by hungerShall she receive a bellyful of weedsAnd bear those tendril hands I touch acrossThe agonized, two seas.Behind my head a square of sky sags overThe circular smile tossed from lover to loverAnd the golden ball spins out of the skies;Not from this…
I who was as shapeless as the waterThat shaped the Jordan near my homeWas brother to Mnetha’s daughterAnd sister to the fathering worm.I who was deaf to spring and summer,Who knew not sun nor moon by name,Felt thud beneath my flesh’s armour,As yet was in a molten formThe leaden stars, the rainy hammerSwung by my…
And all my grief flows from the riftOf unremembered skies and snows.I think, that if I touched the earth,It would crumble;It is so sad and beautiful,So tremulously like a dream.
‘If my head hurt a hair’s footPack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my breathBump on a spout let the bubbles jump out.Sooner drop with the worm of the ropes round my throatThan bully ill love in the clouted scene.‘All game phrases fit your ring of a cockfight:I’ll comb the snared woods…
His enemies entered bed,Under the encumbered eyelid,Through the rippled drum of the hair-buried ear;And Noah’s rekindled now unkind doveFlew man-bearing there.Last night in a raping waveWhales unreined from the green graveIn fountains of origin gave up their love,Along her innocence glidedJaun aflame and savagely young King Lear,Queen Catherine howling bareAnd Samson drowned in his hair,The…
In shaping-time the circle stung awake,In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple,And God walked there who was a fiddling wardenAnd played down pardon from the heavens’ hill.When we were strangers to the guided seas,A handmade moon half holy in a cloud,The wisemen tell me that the garden godsTwined good and evil on an…
Forged in man’s minerals, the brassy oratorLaying my ghost in metal,The scales of this twin world tread on the double,My half ghost in armour hold hard in death’s corridor,To my man-iron sidle.Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels,Bright as her spinning-wheels, the colic seasonWorked on a world of petals;She threads off the sap…
