POEMS
From beating again
And again
Wild
Thoughtful love
Crying, crying
Unreasoning child-
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Having outlived self-offense
And that of my friends
I become brother to loneliness
And love the fact more than the word.
All that is human is
Alien and not alien.
All carefully chosen words
Are here-fairly shadows.
You have music to accord.
A child
At a remove from love
Holds leaves in my hand.
Where the world
is
headed
We do not say
As
stars
Sun and surf
Flash in the sky. Were it said
Among twigs
"And then the world went
And then-"
Only our thoughts
Might seek it
In further woods.
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