«A human body ‘s bare; / A singleton, god’s jesting. / The soul is bloody weary / Of such a solid casing. / A silver dollar matches / Its eyes, and rivals ears, / The skin — all scars and scratches — / Stretched to the bones adheres. Out through the eyes aspired / Into the sk...»
«I The auguries don't bother me, and signs / Don't scare me off. I don't evade the slander / Or poison. Since — there is no death. / We are immortal — everything's immortal. / One shouldn't be scared of death, be it at nine — / Or ninety. There is only life and light — / The uni...»
«Each moment was for us a celebration / As ceremony of consecration — / Just us in the whole world... You would spring / As full of dare and flight as a falcon on the wing / Heady as vertigo in one breath taking motion. / You hurried down to where you would bring / The two of us behind ...»
«Everyone's gone. All that’s left, at the parting, / Is the confusion of leaves outside. / Now I am left with as little as a rustling, / Mumbling of autumn in my house tonight. Summer had slipped as a trembling needle / Out of the numbed hand of silence itself; / And disappeared in the d...»