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This Christmas will be different:the angels got the sack.A choir of heavenly llamas sing,conducted by a yak.Here come the three wise penguins,riding..

Hey Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, VixenComet, Cupid, Donner, BlitzenMy Christmas sleigh’s in need of fixingIt seems my bum no longer fits inI know I’ve..

The air is damp and chill as cloudsthe world is paper whitethe moon and stars floated in flakesto join us in the nightmoonlight fell and all..

are the hugs.The welcome home hugson station platformssparkling with frost.The good to be home hugsas the warmth of the housefolds round us.The thank..

1The browned trees are singing for my thirty-fourth birthday. Leaves are beginning to fall upon the long grass. Their cold perfume raises the..

1Fools have big wombs. For the rest?—here is pennyroyal if one knows to use it. But time is only another liar, so go along the wall a little further:..

contend in a sea which the land partly enclosesshielding them from the too-heavy blowsof an ungoverned ocean which when it choosestortures the..

Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Fallsits spent waters forming the outline of his back. Helies on his right side, head near the..

Nude bodies like peeled logssometimes give off a sweetestodor, man and womanunder the trees in full excessmatching the cushion ofaromatic pine-drift..

Beloved you areCaviar of CaviarOf all I love you bestO my Japanese bird nestNo herring from NorwayCan touch you for flavor. NayPimento itselfis flat..

What have I to say to youWhen we shall meet?Yet—I lie here thinking of you.The stain of loveIs upon the world.Yellow, yellow, yellow,It eats into the..

The murderer's little daughterwho is barely ten years oldjerks her shouldersright and leftso as to catch a glimpse of mewithout turning round.Her..

It is a small plantdelicately branched andtapering conicallyto a point, each branchand the peak a wire forgreen pods, blind lanternsstarting upward..

Love is twain, it is not single,Gold and silver mixed to one,Passion ‘tis and pain which mingleGlist'ring then for aye undone.Pain it is not;..

From the Nativitywhich I have already celebratedthe Babe in its Mother's armsthe Wise Men in their stolensplendorand Joseph and the..

Constantly near you, I never in my entiresixty-four years knew you so well as yesterdayor half so well. We talked. you were neverso lucid, so..

The living quality ofthe man's mindstands outand its covert assertionsfor art, art, art!paintingthat the Renaissancetried to absorbbutit remained a..

Oh, black Persian cat!Was not your lifealready cursed with offspring?We took you for rest to that oldYankee farm, — so lonelyand with so many field..

This horrible but superb paintingthe parable of the blindwithout a redin the composition shows a groupof beggars leadingeach other diagonally..

Now that I have cooled to youLet there be gold of tarnished masonry,Temples soothed by the sun to ruinThat sleep utterly.Give me hand for the..

O—eh—lee! La—la!Donna! Donna!Blue is the sky of Palermo;Blue is the little bay;And dost thou remember the orange and fig,The lively sun and the sea..

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.

Pour the wine bridegroomwhere before you thebride is enthroned her hairloose at her temples a headof ripe wheat is onthe wall beside her theguests..

First he said:It is the woman in usThat makes us write-Let us acknowledge it-Men would be silent.We are not menTherefore we can speakAnd be..

You Communists and Republicans!all you Germans and Frenchmen!you corpses and quickeners!The stars are about to meltand fall on you in tears.Get..