Classic and Contemporary Poets

JOHN CIARDI

Poems found: 863

BACK HOME IN POMPEII

I PICKED A DREAM OUT OF MY HEAD

THE DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP

THE STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS

TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY

11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED

A BOX COMES HOME

A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO

TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING

LETTER FROM A PANDER

AN APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE

A POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL

EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET

A SUCCESFUL SPECIES

A THANKS TO A BOTANIST

A THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS

A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS

ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS

A MAN CAME TUESDAY

AN ALPHABESTIARY: B

AN ALPHABESTIARY: G

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS

AN INSCRIPTION FOR RICHARD EBERHART

AUDIT AT KEY WEST

BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968

BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906

ON SENDING HOME MY CIVILIAN CLOTHES

ONE JAY AT A TIME

DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE

DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM

DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

ELEGY FOR G.B. SHAW

ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER

ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945

ELEGY FOR THE FACE AT YOUR ELBOW

FOR MILLER WILLIAMS

FOR MY SON JOHN

FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM

FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1

AN OLD MAN CONFESSES

THE ONE DULL THING YOU DID WAS TO DIE, FLETCHER

A MEMORY OF THE SAD CHAIR

GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE

GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL

HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT

HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS

HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR

IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE

IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD

THE CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MEADOWS

KNOWING BITCHES

ONE BETTY – FIVE SKULLS

RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY

LETTER TO MOTHER

MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED

THE REASON FOR THE PELICAN

MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN

MY FATHER'S WATCH

NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN

NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY

ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION

OF FISH AND FISHERMEN

ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER

ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL

ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION

AN ASPECT OF THE AIR

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON EVOLUTION

MORNING: I KNOW PERFECTLY HOW IN A MINUTE YOU WILL STRETCH AND SMILE

POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: FOR CLAVIA ON A REJECTION SLIP

PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION

QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED

REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS

ROMAN DIARY: 1951

SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE

THE DAY OF THE PEONIES

SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE

SPRING SONG (1)

SPRING SONG (2)

TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS

THE CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD

THE CLOCK IN THE MIRROR

THE FOOLISH WING

IT TOOK FOUR FLOWERBOATS TO CONVEY MY FATHER'S BLACK

THE HEALTH OF CAPTAINS

THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD

THE PILOT IN THE JUNGLE

THE POET'S WORDS

THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE

BEDLAM REVISITED

AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE

SATURDAY – MARCH 6

THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3

TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK

TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA

TO JUDITH ASLEEP

TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS

TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 1. THE ABSTRACT CALORIE

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 2. THE TITLE OF THE LAST POEM WAS WRONG AGAIN

VISIBILITY ZERO

GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE

WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME

Â€ŒNOTHING IS REALLY HARD BUT TO BE REALÂ€”Â€?

A CRATE OF STERLING SILVER LOVING CUPS

AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW

AN EMERITUS ADDRESSES THE SCHOOL

APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE

POEM FROM A HIRED ROOM

BALLAD OF HOW ADAM SAW IT

BEES AND MORNING GLORY

DEATH'S THE CLASSIC LOOK

ELEGY FOR A SEAMAN

ELEGY FOR SANDRO

EVERYWHERE THAT UNIVERSE

FAST AS YOU CAN COUNT TO TEN

FIRST SNOW ON AN AIRFIELD

FLOWERING QUINCE

FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY POEM

GIRLS GOING TO CHURCH

HIGH TENSION LINES ACROSS A LANDSCAPE

LAUNCELOT IN HELL

LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER

LETTER TO VIRGINIA JOHNSON

LOVE MAKES NO MUSIC

MASSACHUSETTS BAY

METROPOLITAN ICE CO.

MONDAY MORNING REVEILLE

MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE

NIGHT CELESTIAL

NO WHITE BIRD SINGS

ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF A CITIZEN

ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD IN POLAND

ON LOOKING EAST TO THE SEA WITH A SUNSET BEHIND ME

POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL

POEM FOR MY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY

QUIRKS: 1. BREAKFAST ON THE PATIO

RECORD CROWD AT BEACHES

REFLECTIONS WHILE OILING A MACHINE GUN

REVEILLE FOR MY TWENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY

REVERIE DURING BRIEFING

S.P.Q.R.Â€”A LETTER FROM ROME

SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE

SOME FIGURES FOR WHO I AM

THE BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME

THOUGHTS ON LOOKING INTO A THICKET

THURSDAY ALSO HAPPENS

TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR

VAGARY OF THE SIMPLE HEART

WARD THREE: FAITH

WHY NOBODY PETS THE LION AT THE ZOO

THE STRANGER IN THE PUMPKIN

CHANG MCTANG MCQUARTER CAT

ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES

ELEGY JUST IN CASE

MAN AND A WOMAN MIGHT AT THIS MOMENT

MAN CAME TUESDAY

AT FIRST FLOWER OF THE EASY DAY

BACK HOME IN POMPEII

EVERYTIME YOU ARE SLEEPING AND I

FAST AS YOU CAN COUNT TO TEN

I PICKED A DREAM OUT OF MY HEAD

I REMEMBER THE HOUSE THAT WAS DOWN FROM PORTLAND ROAD

I WISH I COULD MEET THE MAN THAT KNOWS

I'M NO GOOD FOR YOU AND YOU

IT TOOK FOUR FLOWERBOATS TO CONVOY MY FATHER'S BLACK

MY FATHER DIED IMPERFECT AS A MAN

ONE EASTER NOT ON THE CALENDAR I WOKE

PALAVER'S NO PRAYER

DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP

HAIRY-NOSED PREPOSTEROUS

REASON FOR THE PELICAN

SOMETHING / NOTHING ANY LOVE CAN TELL

STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS

STONE WITHOUT EDGES HAS NOT BEEN MINED

STRANGER IN THE PUMPKIN SAID

TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY

NOTHING IS REALLY HARD BIT TO BE REAL --'

11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED

4:00 A.M. ON THE TERRACE

CHRISTMAS CAROL

CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO

CRATE OF STERLING LOVING CUPS

DAMNATION OF DOVES

DIALOGUE IN THE SHADE

FABLE OF SURVIVAL

GRAY SPRING MORNING

GUIDE TO POETRY; FOR CID CORMAN, WHO NEEDS IT LEAST

KNOTHOLE IN SPENT TIME

LESSON IN MANNERS

LOUD PROUD SOMEONE

MEMORY OF THE SAD CHAIR

POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL

PRAISE OF GOOD POETS IN A BAD AGE; TO THE MEMORY OF WALLACE STEVENS

PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN

RHETORIC FOR DANNY KEOUGH TO RECITE AT THE BAR

SLEEP (BY ROUSSEAU)

SUCCESFUL SPECIES

THANKS TO A BOTANIST

THOUGHT ABOUT SHEIK BEDREDDEN

THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS

TRAFFIC VICTIM SENDS A SONNET OF CONFUSED THANKS TO GOD

TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS

VISIT FOR AUNT FRANCESCA

WARNING ABOUT THE PREPOSTEROUS

WORD ABOUT THE TRUE-PREPOSTEROUS

ABOUT ESKIMOS (AND WHY THEY WEAR PANTS)

ABOUT MOOSE OR, TO HAIRY COWS, THE HAIRY BULL IS HANDSOMER THAN....

ABOUT RIVERS AND TOES

ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS

AFTER SUNDAY DINNER WE UNCLES SNOOZE

ALL ABOUT BOYS AND GIRLS

AFTERNOON IN THE PARK

ALPHABESTIARY: A

ALPHABESTIARY: B

ALPHABESTIARY: C

ALPHABESTIARY: G

ALPHABESTIARY: H

ALPHABESTIARY: I

ALPHABESTIARY: J

ALPHABESTIARY: M

ALPHABESTIARY: N

ALPHABESTIARY: O

ALPHABESTIARY: Q

ALPHABESTIARY: R

ALPHABESTIARY: T

APARTMENT WITH A VIEW

APOLOGY FOR A LOST CLASSICISM

APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE

ASPECT OF THE AIR

ELEGY FOR MORAL SELF-ASSURANCE AND COUNTRY VIRTUE

EMERITUS ADDRESSING THE SCHOOL

EVENING OF THE PRIVATE EYE

INSCRIPTION FOR RICHARD EBERHART

OLD MAN CONFESSES

AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED LAST

AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

AND OFF HE WENT JUST AS PROUD AS YOU PLEASE

APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE

ARE WE THROUGH TALKING, I HOPE?

AS I WOULD WISH YOU BIRDS

AT LEAST WITH GOOD WHISKEY

AUDIT AT KEY WEST

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COMEDIAN

BACK THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS TO THIS SIDE

BALLAD OF THE ICONDIC

BARMECIDE FEAST

BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968

BEES AND MORNING GLORIES

BEING CALLED; A BREAKFAST REVERIE IN KEY WEST

BIRDS, LIKE THOUGHTS

BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906

BUMP! BANG! BUMP!

CALLING ALL COWBOYS

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY?

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS STRONG

CAPTAIN SPUD AND HIS FIRST MATE, SPADE

CARVING THE TURKEY

CAUGHT AS WE ARE

CHELSEA NAVAL HOSPITAL

CHILDE HAROLD TO THE DARK TOWER CAME

CHRISTMAS ALONE IN KEY WEST

COME TO THINK OF IT

COMPOSITION FOR A NATIVITY; ISTE PERFECIT OPUS

COUNTING ON FLOWERS

DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE

DEAD PIGEON ON SOUTH STREET

DEATH OF A BOMBER

DIALOGUE WITH OUTER SPACE

DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM

DOING A GOOD DEED

DOMESTIC SONNET

DONE FOR THE DOING

DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

DOWN NARROW STAIRS FROM A THIN EYE

DRIVING ACROSS THE AMERICAN DESERT AND THINKING OF THE SAHARA

EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET

ELEGY 3. CAVALCANTE

ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES

ELEGY FOR A SWEET SHARPY

ELEGY FOR G.B. SHAW

ELEGY FOR THE FACE AT YOUR ELBOW

ELEGY JUST IN CASE

ELEGY: 1. AS I FIND MYSELF REMEMBERING

ELEGY: 1. AS I HEAR THE FAMILY THINKING

ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER

ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945

EPITHALAMIUM AT ST. MICHAEL'S CEMETERY

EVERYWHERE THAT UNIVERSE

EXEGESIS OF AN ALLEGORICAL TEXT

FIDDLE PRACTICE

FINALLY THAT BLUE RECEDING SPHERE

FLOWERING QUINCE

FOR MILLER WILLIAMS

FOR MY 25TH BIRTHDAY IN 1941

FOR MY NEPHEW GOING TO BED

FOR MY SON JOHN

FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM

FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN

FOR SOMEONE ON HIS TENTH BIRTHDAY

FOUR THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT A GOAT

FRAGMENT OF A BAS RELIEF

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 2

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 3

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 4

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 5

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 6

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES

FRESHMAN SONNET: SUCCESS

FROM ADAM'S DIARY

GALILEO AND THE LAWS

GARDEN NOTES FROM ZANZIBAR

GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE

GET UP OR YOU'LL BE LATE FOR SCHOOL, SILLY!

GOING LATE TO NEW BRUNSWICK

GOING TO THE DOGS

GOOD AND BAD HABITS (THEY ARE SOMETIMES MIXED.)

GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL

GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE

HIGH TENSION WIRES ACROSS A LANDSCAPE

HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT

HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS

HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR

HOW TO TELL THE TOP OF A HILL

I WAS NOT SLEEPING NOR AWAKE

IF YOU SHOULD FALL, DON'T FORGET THIS

IMAGE OF MAN AS A GARDENER, AFTER TWO WORLD WARS

IMPROVISATION FOR A SOUTHERN NIGHT

IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE

IN PLACE OF A CURSE

IN SOME DOUBT BUT WILLINGLY

IN SPECIES, DARLING

IN THE AUDIENCE

IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD

IN THE YEAR OF MANY CONVERSIONS AND THE PRIVATE SOUL

IS THIS SOMEONE YOU KNOW?

IT IS FOR THE WAKING MAN TO TELL HIS DREAMS

IT IS SPRING, DARLING

IT IS THE SAME PLACE ALWAYS ONCE AGAIN

IT IS TIME, YOU KNOW

JOE WITH A WOODEN LEG

JOSHUA ON EIGHTH AVENUE

KNOWING BITCHES

LANDSCAPES OF MY NAME

LAUNCELOT IN HELL

LEAVING LONGBOAT KEY; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM SLOANE, III

LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER

LETTER FROM A DEATH BED

LETTER FROM A METAPHYSICAL COUNTRYSIDE; FRANKFORD, MISSOURI

LETTER FROM A PANDER

LETTER FROM A RUBBER RAFT

LETTER FROM AN EMPTY HOUSE

LETTER FROM AN ISLAND

LETTER HOMEWARD

LETTER TO DANTE

LETTER TO MOTHER

LETTER TO VIRGINIA JOHNSON

LINES FOR MYRA TO GROW TO

LINES WHILE WALKING HOME FROM A PARTY ON CHARLES STREET

LOVE SONNET: BELIEVING PART OF ALMOST ALL I SAY

LOVING YOU IS SOMETHING TO DO

MANOCALZATTA (GLOVED HAND)

MASSIVE RETALIATION; SAIPAN 1944-1945; AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN

MEMO:PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF A PRAYER TO GOD THE FATHER

MEMOIR OF A ONE-ARMED HARP TEACHER

MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED

MIDDLE CLASS POEM

MISS OLIVIA BRANTON

MONDAY MORNING: LONDON

MORE ABOUT PREPOSTERI

MORNING IN THE PARK

MORNING: I KNOW PERFECTLY HOW IN A MINUTE YOU WILL STRETCH AND SMILE

MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE

MUMMY SLEPT LATE AND DADDY FIXED BREAKFAST

MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN

MY FATHER'S WATCH

MYSTIC RIVER; MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

NAPPING BY THE FENCE

NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN

NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY

NINE GRAY GEESE

NO WHITE BIRD SINGS

O CHILD, DO NOT FEAR THE DARK AND SLEEP'S DARK POSSESSION

OCTOBER: A SNOW TOO SOON

ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS; FOR MY TEACHERS

OF FISH AND FISHERMEN

OF HURRICANES, SUMMER DAYS, AND MISS MYRA

ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER

ON BEING MUCH BETTER THAN MOST AND YET NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH

ON BEING SURE AND OF WHAT

ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL

ON LEARNING TO ADJUST TO THINGS

ON LOOKING EAST TO THE SEA WITH A SUNSET BEHIND ME

ON MEETING MISS B

ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION

ON SENDING HOME MY CIVILIAN CLOTHES

ON SOMETHING LIKE THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY

ON THE ORTHODOXY AND CREED OF MY POWER MOWER

ON THE POET AS A DAMNED POOR THING

ONE JAY AT A TIME

ONE NIGHT ON LAKE CHAUTAUQUA

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: FOR CLAVIA ON A REJECTION SLIP

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON EVOLUTION

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD

PHILOSOPHICAL POEM

PLEASE DON'T TELL HIM

PLEASE TELL THIS SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE

PLEASE, JOHNNY!

POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL

POEM FOR MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

POEM FOR MY THIRTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY

POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

POOR LITTLE FISH

PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION

QUIRKS: 1. BREAKFAST ON THE PATIO

QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED

READ THIS BEFORE YOU COME IN

READ THIS WITH GESTURES

REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS

REVERIE DURING BRIEFING

RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT

ROMAN DIARY: 1951

S.P.Q.R. A LETTER FROM ROME

SEA MARSHES IN WINTER

SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE

SIT UP WHEN YOU SIT DOWN!

SITTING BULL AT THE CIRCUS

SLEEPLESS BEAUTY

SOCIALIZING WITH A CREATURE

SOME FIGURES FOR WHO MUST SPEAK

SOME SORT OF GAME

SOMEONE ASKED ME

SOMEONE AT MY HOUSE SAID

SOMEONE COULD WIN A POLAR BEAR

SOMEONE HAD A HELPING HAND

SOMEONE LOST HIS HEAD AT BEDTIME BUT HE GOT IT BACK

SOMEONE MADE ME PROUD OF YOU

SOMEONE SHOWED ME THE RIGHT WAY TO RUN AWAY

SOMEONE WAS UP IN THAT TREE

SOMETIMES EVEN PARENTS WIN

SOMETIMES I FEEL THIS WAY

SOMETIMES RUNNING

SOMETIMES THE FOUNDERING FURY

SONG FOR AN ALLEGORICAL PLAY

SPEED ADJUSTMENTS

SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE

SPRING SONG (1)

SPRING SONG (2)

SUBURBAN HOMECOMING

SURVIVAL IN MISSOURI

TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS

TALKING MYSELF TO SLEEP AT ONE MORE HILTON

TEN MINUTES MY CAPTIVE

TEN YEARS AGO WHEN I PLAYED AT BEING BRAVE

TERZONE: BODY TO SOUL

TERZONE: SOUL TO BODY

THAT SUMMER'S SHORE

BABOON AND THE STATE

BENEFITS OF EDUCATION; BOSTON, 1931

BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME

CARTOGRAPHER OF MEADOWS

CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD

CHAP WHO DISAPPEARED

CLOCK IN THE MIRROR

COLOSSUS IN QUICKSAND

DAY OF THE PEONIES

DEATHS THEY ARE, THOSE GREAT EYES FROM THE AIR

EASTER BUNNY, SELS.

FIGURE DRAWN IN WIRE; TO MARY AND JOHN AND DICK AND DICK

HEALTH OF CAPTAINS

INVASION OF SLEEP WALKERS (WHAT I SHALL SAY TO MY FATHER)

LESSON FOR TONIGHT

LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD

LOGICIAN'S NOCTURNE

MAN WHO SANG THE SILLIES

ONE DULL THING YOU DID WAS TO DIE, FLETCHER; FOR FLETCHER PRATT

PILOT IN THE JUNGLE

RIVER IS A PIECE OF SKY

SORROW OF OBEDIENCE

SOUND TRACK JUMPS

STARRY HEAVENS, THE MORAL LAW

VERBAL GENERATION

WHATCHAMACALLIT

THINKING ABOUT GIRLS

THIS MOVING MEANINGLESSNESS

THOUGHTS ON LOOKING INTO A THICKET

THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE

THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 1

THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 2

THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 3

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3

THURSDAY ALSO HAPPENS

TIME LEAVES NO TIME WHEN YOU'RE A BOY

TO A LOVELY LADY GONE TO THEORY

TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK

TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA

TO BE DELIVERED ON ARRIVAL

TO DUDLEY FITTS; SOME MORTAL LINES WHILE LYING IN BED WITH SACROLILIAC

TO JUDITH ASLEEP

TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR

TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS

TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT

TO W.T. SCOTT; WITH THANKS FOR A POEM

TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING

TWENTY-THREE SKIDOO

TWICE, AWAY FROM JACK, I THOUGHT OF HIM

TWO DRY POEMS: DROUGHT

TWO DRY POEMS: PRAYING FOR RAIN IN A CRACKED FIELD

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 1. THE ABSTRACT CALORIE

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 2. THE TITLE OF THE LAST POEM WAS WRONG AGAIN

TWO HOURS: 1. EVENING

TWO POEMS FOR BENN: 1. ROMPING

TWO POEMS FOR BENN: 2. STOPPED SUDDENLY THAT HE IS BEAUTIFUL

TWO SONGS FOR A GUNNER: 1. FIRING TRACERS

TWO SONGS FOR A GUNNER: 2. BEING FIRED AT

USELESS KNOWLEDGE

VALE (TO IRWIN SWERDLOW)

VISIBILITY ZERO

WARD THREE: FAITH

WASHING YOU FEET

WATCHING A KETTLE BOIL

WHAT DID YOU LEARN AT THE ZOO

WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME

WHAT SOMEONE SAID WHEN HE WAS SPANKED ON THE DAY BEFORE HIS BIRTHDAY

WHAT SOMEONE TOLD ME ABOUT BOBBY LINK

WHAT WAS HER NAME?

WHAT WORLD IT IS THE CROCODILE MAY KNOW

WHEN A MAN DIES

WHEN I AM NOT DEAD

WHILE I WAS SHAVING

WHY DON'T YOU WRITE FOR ME?

WHY I HAVE TO WAIT ALL DAY TO KISS BENN

WIDGEONRY (AND WHY SHOULDN'T YOU USE YOUR DICTIONARY?)

YET NOT TO LISTEN TO THAT SUNG NOTHING

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