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Scenesters
a black coat long in mourning
is our second home
we walk in the shoemaker’s
weary chapel
our liturgy is a bit of bread
and the infinite street
Poems on the topic: coat
Poems on the topic “coat” on Poets.by.
Sheriff
I open a velvet coat
and am oak
a place to hang
and itch
and change to paper
Into winter
My vision is going. I hear
a devilish tongue—
cold as a tumor,
vinegar boiled till thick.
I put on my coat
and do not put it off again till spring.
Bequest
Give the day my made-up noon;
give dinner to the sun.
Give the apothecary
the use of the sea
and the sea, my velvet coat.
Gifts
I took my wife a friar’s coat,
a most fine cloth and a rich lace,
troubled money and a kind mouth,
a ship and a captain coming from sea—
the loveliest that ever I saw—
to look after her little bitch, which was just a-whelping.
Seeker
I come among the fallen,
loving for advantage.
A cook hunts
a constant heart.
Lice haunt my coat,
me against me.
Tar man
Among the tar-men
I instruct myself
in the nature of tar:
a great batter, boiled
and simple like a fool.
The night took
a few turns in my coat.
I found the pageant strange.
Blithe spirit
The lark is mad,
dishabille in a disco—
a fine lad, to court
in his ash coat.
Retreat
I took to a high
place and stayed
till I was forced by
a hole in my coat
to come home.
I almost wrote.
A Coat
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eye
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
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