“His poems are brilliant, even though he leaves lines unfinished, work uncorrected.”

Companions, as excess baggage.

Barbarian

Barbers

Mottled pink and gilt-edged clouds

new moon

He had a hairy nose. Almost like a mustache.

A bicycle is useless indoors.

After her excited dream of being thrown

from GI to GI in a barracks

I knew we were in trouble

Optimism
overlooking the fatal flaw
in a plan