FIRBANK

No one out of your camp

   will have an air of pretense

on a play of words

of comedy's high life

 for you saw the underbelly

 of acting up

TS ELIOT

When on a bird watch

    at Cape Ann

I search for you

by the dark waters

amid warbler's speech

you are not distant

from the life's lambent sun.

SONG WITH WORDSWORTH

Romantic notes the songbird

   

remaining with a quote

of words, sleepless footsteps,

on a vine.

CRITICS

 Hardy , you were the first modern poet, how you understood pessimism
and  Donald Davies how you understood Hardy
   TS.Eliot it was through Arthur Symons that introduced us to symbolism   Julian Symonds wrote about it
 Auden a great poet and critic
 CS Lewis a great fantasy writer and apologist

What friends

Drabbles
Durrell   Davenport,  Wilson
Nin, Henry Miller
Ransom  Howard, Hindus, Levin ,(whom I corresponded) Bersani, David Kalstone,Marjorie Perloff,
 
Burke, Bloom, Geoffrey  Hill,  Vendler,(whose lectures I attended,she liked
my poems,) Murdoch ,Marthe Robert, the Mauritains', catholic saints


 what a critic contributes
 to our understanding of the poem
  and the novel is an emotive eye

MILOSZ

Cries

  are war zones

of perpetual words

singling out a century

of falsehoods
 
as hands in the wind

 you  expose tempted angels

with their closed parachuted drops of

political falsehood

to serve for language's integrity.

BERRYMAN


Cannot exist
  without words
  expectations. a child's hands
      trembling
       by urns prepared for 20th
century science like crematoriums

of rolling  snow in atomic dust
as demons      crows
outside the echoes of the timeless

of first finders of my identity
then keepers of my truth
a big part of you

inside your exploding heliotropes

of an East wind

in a descent of emptiness

ELUARD


No force of your love

is unexpected in the Paris sun

the   day spent  in studies
 
in libraries as   sparrows

 fall from the tree roofs

birds nesting

    hours do not move

as you prepare

word bombs for the resistance