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Riddle: I'm a kind of room you'll find in most any building. You've walked into me many times I'm sure. But you have never walked out of me and you..

She had a boxwith a million red bandanas for him.She gave them to himone by one or by thousands,saying then she had not enough for him.She had..

Desolate and loneAll night long on the lakeWhere fog trails and mist creeps,The whistle of a boatCalls and cries unendingly,Like some lost childIn..

I have loveAnd a child,A banjoAnd shadows.(Losses of God,All will goAnd one dayWe will holdOnly the shadows.)

IF I should pass the tomb of JonahI would stop there and sit for awhile;Because I was swallowed one time deep in the darkAnd came out alive after..

THEN came, Oscar, the time of the guns.And there was no land for a man, no land for a country,Unless guns sprang upAnd spoke their language.The how..

BODY of Jesus taken down from the crossCarved in ivory by a lover of Christ,It is a child's handful you are here,The breadth of a man's finger,And..

Wagon wheel gap is a place I never sawAnd Red Horse Gulch and the chutes of Cripple Creek.Red-shirted miners picking in the sluices,Gamblers with red..

In the loam we sleep,In the cool moist loam,To the lull of years that passAnd the break of stars,From the loam, then,The soft warm loam,We rise:To..

I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trainsof the nation.Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark airgo fifteen all-steel..

EMILY DICKINSON:You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks,And how God plays around a back yard..

THE RIVER is gold under a sunset of Illinois.It is a molten gold someone pours and changes.A woman mixing a wedding cake of butter and eggsKnows what..

LET it go on; let the love of this hour be poured out till all the answers are made,the last dollar spent and the last blood gone.Time runs with an..

CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers toldtheir lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture of hands arranged by..

THEY have taken the ball of earthand made it a little thing.They were held to the land and horses;they were held to the little seas.They have changed..

When the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct and crossexaminations, hot clashesof lawyers and cool decisions of the judge,There..

There was a high majestic foolingDay before yesterday in the yellow corn.And day after to-morrow in the yellow cornThere will be high majestic..

TWO fishes swimming in the sea,Two birds flying in the air,Two chisels on an anvil-maybe.Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each..

I wrote a poem on the mistAnd a woman asked me what I meant by it.I had thought till then only of the beauty of the mist,how pearl and gray of it mix..

There are no handles upon a languageWhereby men take hold of itAnd mark it with signs for its remembrance.It is a river, this language,Once in a..

SELL me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood.Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the forehead where men kisssisters they love.Sell me..

In Abraham Lincoln's city,Where they remember his lawyer's shingle,The place where they brought himWrapped in battle flags,Wrapped in the smoke of..

Brother, I am fireSurging under the ocean floor.I shall never meet you, brother—Not for years, anyhow;Maybe thousands of years, brother.Then I will..

I am singing to youSoft as a man with a dead child speaks;Hard as a man in handcuffs,Held where he cannot move:Under the sunAre sixteen million..

I AM put high over all others in the city today.I am the killer who kills for those who wish a killing today.Here is a strong young man who..