Poems by Maxwell Bodenheim

Determinedly peppered with signs,
The omnibus ambles with curiosity.
Southampton Row, Malborn...

Upon an arched sarcophagus of pain
Are figures painted in arrested embraces
With outlines so li...

They have carved a battle
Across your hard face:
Transfigured conflict,
Lines like suspended...

We blew a luminous confusion of thoughts
Upon the silence of our souls,
Staining it to little,...

We met upon nearby hill-tops of our lives
And shook the dust from us, revealing flame-laced clo...

Whenever a love dies within you,
Griefs, phosphorescent with unborn tears,
Cut the glowing h...

A trickle of dawn insinuated itself
Through the crevices of black satiation.
The elderly trees ...

Three spirits sit upon a low stone wall placed on the top of a hill. Their figures are gray, wit...