a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.