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Cold Mountain

Some people are always bragging of their conduct: “Confucious or the Duke of Chou could not match my talents!” Yet look at their heads, stubborn and stony! See their bodies, ungainly and stiff! Pull them by a rope and they refuse to move, poke them with an awl and they […] Read more

The Hanging Man

By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me. I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet. The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard’s eyelid: A world of bald white days in a shadeless socket. A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree. […] Read more

Those Guiding Forces

Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those first feelings that were born with me, And leaving busy chase of wealth and learning For idle dreams of things that cannot be: Today, I will seek not the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, […] Read more