There is no way not to be excited When what you have been disillusioned by raises its head From its arms and seems to want to talk to you ...

The big animals : despondent  at table : unsated.  But the small cunning flies  scrambling up slopes of bread  inherit Buttertown.  *...

Prayer (I) Prayer the church's banquet, angel's age,          God's breath in man returning to his birth,          The soul ...

I spent a long time falling toward your slender, tremulous face— a long time slipping through stars as they shattered, through sticky cl...

The last thing that most human beings seem capable of trusting naturally - instinctively - is themselves, their own judgment. It is the resu...

There was a man of double deed, Who sowed his garden full of seed; When the seed began to grow, 'Twas like a garden full of snow; Wh...

Blessed is the man who, having subdued all his passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about t...

From "Jubilate Agno" For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him. ...

Some time ago was I, mid-ocean, lost with dog. Unfortunate, drifting board to board until a skiff of three survivors did like our sha...

For some poets, poetry had come to seem implicated in or complicit with the crisis of personhood. The very qualities that give poetry power ...

Externally, he adapted: to the family surroundings that he left for good less than a year before dying; to the externals of dating and prete...

Antigone, as Lacan's figure for the beautiful, embodies this excess of the ethical over the aesthetic. The effect of her beauty, what La...

"Alas," said the mouse, "the world gets smaller every day. At first it was so wide that I ran along and was happy to see wall...