Poems by Weldon Kees
The Doctor Will Return
... I picked some once and pressed them in a book ...
The Beach
... And then, in darkness, cuts his throat ...
Interregnum
... Then drill your hogs and sons for another war ...
1926
... And I am back from seeing Milton Sills ...
A Distance From The Sea
... To Ernest Brace"And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was ...
Year's End
... Yet you, A year cold, come more living to this room ...
Dead March
... stia. (Old saboteurs, controlled by Trotsky'sScheming and unconquered ghost, still threaten Novgorod ...
The Upstairs Room
... The drift Of autumn fires and a century's cigars, that gun's ...
The End Of The Library
... When the coal Gave out, we began ...
A Musician's Wife
... The records the critics praised and nobody bought ...
Robinson
... Shelves, bed, the tinted photograph of Robinson's first wife, ...
The Smiles Of The Bathers
... The scholar, closing his book as the midnight clock strikes, is hollow ...
Late Evening Song
... Grown dead, gone gray,That burned in other rooms I knew ...
The Furies
... Whose crutches shriek on the sidewalk ...
The Bell From Europe
... The kind words, friends for drinks, the books we read, ...
