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The light that was shadowed then Was seen to be our lives,...

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All of our lives is a rebus Of little wooden animals painted shy, Terrific colors, magnificent and horrible, Close together.

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... like a Wave on a beach, that thinks it's had this...

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I remember meeting you in a dark dream Of April, you or some girl, The necklace of wishes alive and breathing around your throat.

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And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns...

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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Everything is being blown away; A little horse trots with a letter in its mouth, which is read with eagerness...

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Some day I'll claim to you how all used up I am because of you but in the meantime the ride...

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How much longer will I be able to inhabit the divine sepulcher Of life, my great love?

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... that there is no other way, That the history of creation proceeds according to...

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... the girls who came at dawn To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to be a man...

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A moment that gave not only itself, but Also the means of keeping it, of not turning to dust...

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As words go crying after themselves, leaving the dream Upended in a puddle somewhere As though "dead" were just another adjective.

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Life became a pregnant silence, but it was understood that the silence was to lead nowhere.

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it is best then that the buried word remain buried for we were intended to appreciate only its fruits and not the secret principle activating ...

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One idea is enough to organize a life and project it Into unusual but viable forms, but many ideas merely...

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Well, it is a good experience, to divest oneself of some tested ideals, some old standbys, And even finding nothing to put in their place...

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"We, we children, why our lives are circumscribed, circumferential; Close, too close to the center...."

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Only then can the chronic inattention Of our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory....

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How could he explain to them his prayer That nature, not art, might unsurp the canvas?

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