Grand jury
at the committee on crime
all the raw heads
discharging one word
into a box
Anxious poems
Anxious poems — a collection of the best works on Poemship.
Tar nation
in the middle of an argument
kindness is fatal
to keeping the enemy an enemy
my friends think
I am an old hen
dancing without a head
between hope and fear
what will become of us
running on other men’s ruin
Sinner
again to howl
rage and desire
that happen in secret
some touch of absence
or strange act that would
never have been
but that I insist upon a fall
for in the pit I met
my brother owl
Adversarial
who died this morning
who broke
who was unready
I walked up and down
above and below
the questions answered me
how lewdly they talk
and how poor a pit
is the belly
Dilettante
as a kite I could be impertinent
to the weight of numbers
the weight of cellars
where night is spoiling
I fear the atelier
if we must have hands
Standard issues
this day of the sword
I look after my knives
having not a penny
to pay the sea
like an ungrateful lover
near poverty
who is scornful about
playing a bad hand
Men in cloaks
undressed by order of the crow people
an ill usage of land they neither heard nor saw
their sick kissing unmissing the plague
King of clubs
how great and sudden
is a chance hand
sitting in the sea
a king may lose his office
lose his own head
to the state of play
Pastoral Symphony
the flutter of a violin
over the fields
what secret armies come quietly here
where it storms
Citizen, lunatic
tired of the war lies
growing every day
I am given to unquiet
like the sea
and wonder at the deadened
glory of a moon
which I shall not think safe
out of my sight
Origins of horror
a new home
below the present one
wants the world
that they love least
like nature gone
to iron and money
in the damp cellar
long things grew
little fingers that must
be rubbed with blood
and would not eat
and cried to be a doll
Homeland security
in some safe country
I am poor
for want of disorder:
loose paper
mad eyes
frequent attempts to pray
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