You alone almost baffle me, potshaped blossoms—

Were you fashioned by childless women, who made you the infants

Denied them by life?

Study of a Face

Her forehead is the wind-colored, sun-stilled wall of a country church.

Trailing cloud-shudders overhead narrow it to a thin band of vague light:

Two tarnished, exultant cerements of earth—cheeks—meet it,

And the three speak clearly, languidly.

An Old Man Humming a Song

Life was a frayed, pampered lily to him—