Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme – why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the noise of my own…

In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist’s appointment and sat and waited for her in the dentist’s waiting room. It was winter. It got dark…

“In America”, began the lecturer, “everyone must have a degree. The French do not think that all can have it, they don’t say everyone must go to college.” We incline…

Groping back to bed after a piss I part thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness. Four o’clock: wedge-shadowed gardens lie Under a cavernous, a…

When I turned about in the small Dug-out My glance on the Picture tarried. So I hied me away from the fair display, Remembering I was married….

I don’t want to be a soldier, I don’t want to go to war. I’d rather stay at home, Around the streets to roam, And live on the earnings of…

Down on the boulevards the crowds went by, The shouting and the singing died away, And in the quiet we rose to drink the toasts, Our hearts uplifted to the…

The cymbals crash, And the dancers walk, With long white stockings And arms of chalk, Butterfly skirts, And white breasts bare, And shadows of dead men Watching ’em there. Shadows…

We came upon him sitting in the sun Blinded by war, and left. And past the fence There came young soldiers from the Hand and Flower, Asking advice of his…

In the last letter that I had from France You thanked me for the silver Easter egg Which I had hidden in the box of apples You like to munch…

And you, Helen, what should I give you? So many things I would give you Had I an infinite great store Offered me and I stood before To choose. I…