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The imperial city toward which all roads tend, Which codifies the laws and dispatches them By runner or fax to expectant provinces This is not. It's an improvised melange Mushrooming [...]

On beach sand two thousand footprints Cross and overlay And form or seem to form a pattern. Girls speaking Italian Take off their tops And breathe the sun in through [...]

I hated to think of her throwing that old shawl Over her shoulders and pulling her gum boots on To venture beneath the lackluster moon, Stooping out under her low [...]

Last season's unpicked blackcurrants clung To the roadside stonework. Litter papered the hedges, Jettisoned from passing Cars. I climbed above the village's Rooftops and turf smoke; the squared-off wedges Of [...]

As long as I have these saddlebags As long as I have these saddlebags I think I will be all right. The sun in their weave, their wool stained like [...]

First a startle of fragrances to remind me where I am: turf smoke blown through drizzle, oystery brine-tang over Quay Street. An umbrella-raking gale. Then mind-blowing blue above the town [...]

Camille Monet on her deathbed --after the painting by Claude Monet Camille has ventured out in a blizzard it seems. Her husband has brushstroked her in a hurry as she [...]

Anchorite of insomnia, 3 A.M. exile thumbing a skyful Of shortwave radio Static, through unidentifiable Squiggles of blurted Morse, I nudge the dial Millimeter by millimeter Across a spatter Of [...]

The rooms where you entertained me are open to view And expensive now. But I'm drawn that way. The sea steps ashore up wide ascents of marble. Corinthian columns ruffle [...]

Back again I didn't belong there anymore--the city made that clear. The stones excluded me. Even the rain laid no welcoming hand on my shoulder. The hotel in Dominick Street [...]

Concordances You see a lightning bug and think Shooting star! Trout rise to cadmium-yellow sprawls of bug-body and gossamer wing hatching at NBA playoff time as they do every year, [...]