«Out of the smoky air now are plucked down / Stars for the past week frozen in flight. / Head over heels reels the skaters' club, / Clinking its rink with the glass of the night. Slower, slower, skater, step slow-er, / Cutting the curve as you swerve by. / Every turn a constellation / Sc...»
«She came in out of the frost, / her cheeks glowing, / and filled my whole room / with the scent of fresh air / and perfume / and resonent chatter / that did away with my last chance / of getting anywhere in my work. Straightaway / she dropped a hefty art journal / onto the floor /...»
«Over the meadows, beyond the mountains, / there once lived a painter called Klee, / and he sat on his own on a path / with various bright-coloured crayons. He drew rectangles and he drew hooks, / an imp in a light-blue shirt, / Africa, stars, a child on a platform, / wild beasts where S...»
«You're not alone. You haven't died, / while you still,beggar-woman at your side, / take pleasure in the grandeur of the plain, / the gloom, the cold,the whirlwinds of snow. In sumptuous penury, in mighty poverty / live comforted and at rest — / your days and nights are blest, / your s...»