Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
summer time slugs
A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?
life struggle light
It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
world milk abyss
All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.
angel writing self
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
book reading thinking
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
truth eye skins
The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....
eye sunday night
And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
feelings enemy needs
I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
knowledge learning night
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.
life men blood
... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.
baby garden garters
Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.
sleep night years
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
thinking harsh conviction
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
sea long lovely
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.