A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, […]

  You’ve climbed the mountain. At its top, the mountain and the climbing stop. A peak is where the climber finds his biggest step is not mankind’s. Proud […]

  You know, I try, when darkness falls, to estimate to some degree — by marking off the grief in miles — the distance now from you to […]

  A list of some observation. In a corner, it’s warm. A glance leaves an imprint on anything it’s dwelt on. Water is glass’s most public form. Man […]

    All the huskies are eaten. There is no space left in the diary, And the beads of quick words scatter over his spouse’s sepia-shaded face adding […]

  Twice I awoke this night, and went to the window. The street-lamps were a fragment of a sentence spoken in sleep, leading to nothing, like omission points, […]

  All his life he was building something, inventing something. Now, for a Cretan queen, an artificial heifer, so as to cuckold the king. Then a labyrinth, the […]

  Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,Like lightning it le’pt forth half startled at itself,Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, […]

  Here’s a girl from a dangerous town She crops her dark hair short so that less of her has to frown when someone gets hurt. She folds […]

  TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here’s a good place at the corner—I must stand and see the show. Clear the way there, […]