Melancholy’s List - Variations on a Theme
Badges The Elder
Carlos Williams:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Donald Hall:
Then the knee of the wave
turned to stone.
By the cliff of her flank
I anchored.
in the darkness of the harbors
laid-by.
Badges The Elder
Charles Reznikoff:
Holding the stem of the
beauty she had
as if it were still
a rose
Badges The Elder
Creely:
The bird
flies
out the
window. She
flies.
Badges The Elder
Takahashi (translated by Harold Wright):
Inside of one potato
there are mountains and rivers.
