Weldon Kees Night Poems

  • 1.
    Between the visits to the shock ward
    The doctors used to let you play
    On the old upright Baldwin
    Donated by a former patient
    ...
  • 2.
    Robinson at cards at the Algonquin; a thin
    Blue light comes down once more outside the blinds.
    Gray men in overcoats are ghosts blown past the door.
    The taxis streak the avenues with yellow, orange, and red.
    ...
  • 3.
    For a while
    Let it be enough:
    The responsive smile,
    Though effort goes into it.
    ...
  • 4.
    To Ernest Brace

    "And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was
    about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
    ...
  • 5.
    The war is in words and the wood is the world
    That turns beneath our rootless feet;
    the vines that reach, alive and snarled,
    Across the path where the sand is swirled,
    ...
  • 6.
    Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene
    Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore,
    Imperfect kindling even in this wind, burn on.

    ...
  • 7.
    Somewhere in Chelsea, early summer;
    And, walking in the twilight toward the docks,
    I thought I made out Robinson ahead of me.

    ...
  • 8.
    In the broken light, in owl weather,
    Webs on the lawn where the leaves end,
    I took the thin moon and the sky for cover
    To pick the cat's brains and descend
    ...
  • 9.
    รข??That spot of blood on the drawing room wall,
    No larger than a thumbnail when I looked a moment ago,
    Is spreading, Cousin Agatha, and growing brighter.

    ...
Total 9 Night Poems by Weldon Kees

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