Immortal Sails
Now, in a breath, we’ll burst those gates of gold,
And ransack heaven before our moment fails.
Now, in a breath, before we, too, grow old, . . .
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In
When we first heard from blocks away
the fog truck’s blustery roar,
we dropped our toys, leapt from our meals, . . .
In a Dark Time
In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood— . . .
In a London Drawingroom
The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke.
For view there are the houses opposite
Cutting the sky with one long line of wall . . .
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
In musty light, in the thin brown air
of damp carpet, doll heads and rust,
beneath long rows of sharp footfalls . . .
In California: Morning, Evening, Late January
Pale, then enkindled,
light
advancing, . . .
In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
. . .
[in Just-]
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little . . .
In Love, His Grammar Grew
In love, his grammar grew
rich with intensifiers, and adverbs fell
madly from the sky like pheasants . . .
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
I
honey people murder mercy U.S.A. . . .
