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GREGORY ORR

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Poems found: 236

BECAUSE I SENSED

IS THIS WHAT

LOOK, THEY DESCEND

MY BODY WAS NEVER MARRED

ONCE THE TWO OF US

TRANSIENTS WELCOME

WHEN EURYDICE SAW HIM

(TRAUMA) STORM

A DARK NIGHT

A DREAM OF FIFTY

I'VE KNOWN GRIEF

A HALF-DEAD BLACK CHERRY TREE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM MY CHILDHOOD HOUSE

A LA MYSTERIEUSE

A LARGE WHITE ROCK CALLED THE SLEEPING ANGEL

A LIFE

A LITANY

A MOMENT

A PARABLE

A SNAKE ...

A SONG

AUBADE

BETRAYALS/HADES, EURYDICE, ORPHEUS

CARTOONS

AFTER DEATH

AFTER PIERO DI COSIMO'S VENUS, MARS, AND AMOR

AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER

BE-ALL

BEGGAR'S SONG

BEGINNING

BEST

BOLT FROM THE BLUE

HOUSE OF CHILDHOOD

CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS; FOR MARJORIE SARGENT

IN THE ART MUSEUM

DAFFODIL POEM

NIGHT JOURNEY

DOMESTIC LIFE: 1. TODAY

DOMESTIC LIFE: 2. SOMETHING

DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN

DOMESTIC LIFE: 4. THE WATERFALL

DOMESTIC LIFE: 5. FALL CLEANING

PENELOPE/THE WHITE DOOR

ELEGY FOR A CHILD

ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT

EVERYTHING; FOR MY MOTHER

SCARLET T-SHIRT: THE LYRIC MUSE

FAR BELOW, PLOWED FIELDS...

FIELDS TOOK ON...

FRIDAY LUNCHBREAK

GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR

GETTING DRESSED

GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO

GOING OUT

HEART

HERE

HIS DREAM: THE BLACK TREE/THIRST

HIS GRIEF

HORSES

HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969

I WAS MOVING ...

IF THERE'S A GOD...

THE FIRE HYDRANT

IN HAITI: 1. SUNSET AT DESCHAPELLES

IN HAITI: 2. AT THE SPRING

IN HAITI: 3. BOY ON THE REEF/INFINITY OF DESIRE

IN HAITI: 4. THE PALACE OF SANS SOUCI

IN HAITI: 5. HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER; DESCHAPELLES, HAITI

IN MY DREAM

LEAVING THE ASYLUM

LIKE ANY OTHER MAN

LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA

LOOKING BACK

LOVE POEM

SOME SAY YOU'RE LUCKY

MAKING BEASTS

MANHATTAN ISLAND POEM

LET'S REMAKE THE WORLD

MEMORIAL DAY

MORNING SONG

MUSE OF MIDNIGHT

MY FATHER'S VOICE

HAS THE MOON BEEN UP THERE?

WHO WANTS TO LOSE THE WORTLD?

WHEN I OPEN THE BOOK

IT'S NOT MAGIC

NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS

NOVEMBER

OCTOBER

ON A HIGHWAY EAST OF SELMA, ALABAMA; JULY 1965

SADNESS IS THERE TOO

ORIGIN OF THE MARBLE FOREST

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE

ISIS KNEELS

THE POEM WRITTEN ON THE BODY

PARADISE

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 1. PARADISE

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: BLUE PENINSULA

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 2. TOO BRIGHT

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 3. FULLNESS

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 4. BOTH

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 5. ALMOST A LONELINESS

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 6. YES

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 7. TO SAY

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 8. EQUIVALENTS

PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 9. THIS DAZZLE

POEM

PARADISE LIGHT: ZIP ZAP

THE THINGS THAT DIE

READING LATE IN THE COTTAGE

REFUSING

SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY

SHAKY SPECTRUM

SILENCE

SINGING THE PAIN BACK INTO THE WOUND

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT; HAYNEVILLE, ALABAMA, 1965

SOME PART OF THE LYRIC

SONG: EARLY DEATH OF THE MOTHER

TABLEAU VIVANT

THE BRAVE CHILD

THE BRIDGE

THE BUILDERS; FOR TRISHA

THE KNOWN GRIEF

THE CITY OF SALT

THE DEMONSTRATION

THE DINNER

I WANT TO GO BACK

THE DOLL

THE ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD

THE EXCAVATION

THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING

THE GIFT; FOR MY DAUGHTER

THE GIRL WITH EIGHTEEN NIGHTGOWNS

THE HAND: BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR

THE HATS

THE JOURNEY; FOR JANE KENYON (1947-1995)

HOW EASY TO GIVE UP HOPE

THE LOST CHILDREN

THE MAENADS

YOU CAN READ THE WORLD

THE POND

THE RIVER

THE ROOM

THE SWEATER

THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER

THE VASE

THE WEDGE

THE WEEDS

THE WESTERN INVENTION OF LYRICAL NATURE

THERE

TIN CUP

TRISTAN AND ISEULT

TWO LINES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM; FOR LARRY AND JUDY RAAB

POEM ABOUT NOTHING

WASHING MY FACE

WE'VE COME

WHAT I'M SAYING

IF YOUR GAZE TAKES IN

WHEN I WAS ALIVE ...

WHO'D WANT TO BE A MAN

WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA

WORK GLOVES; FOR BILL AND JON ORR

A SHELF IS A LEDGE

FATHER'S SONG

HIS LAMENT

THE GRAY FOX

THE VOYAGES

WE MUST MAKE A KINGDOM OF IT

THE HINGE

THE BELOVED IS DEAD

A HOUSE JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER'S

I KNOW NOW THE BELOVED

THIS IS WHAT WAS BEQUEATHED US

AFTER THE GUEST

THEN

TWO SONGS OF THE RIVER

DO WORDS OUTLAST

NO POSTMORTEMS

TO BE ALIVE

WHAT IS LIFE

WHEN SAPPHO WROTE

A LARGE WHITE ROCK CALLED 'THE SLEEPING ANGEL'

THE HAND: 'BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR'

THREE SONGS: 3. SONG OF THOMAS, CALLED 'THE DOUBTER'

BECAUSE I SENSED

IS THIS WHAT

LOOK, THEY DESCEND

PHOTO OF MY MOTHER IN HAITI

RED T-SHIRT WITH POETRY EMBLAZONED IN BLOCK LETTERS...

VISITOR

ANNUNCIATION

AUBADE

BY THE SHORE

CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS

CLEAR NIGHT

DARK PRAYER (1)

DARK PRAYER (2)

ELEGY: 1. A GRAVE RUBBING

ELEGY: 2. LIFE MASK

ELEGY: 3. CHILD'S GAME

END OF AUGUST

FULL MOON

HAITI, 1961

HOUSE OF CHILDHOOD

I FOUND A BIRD

IN MY DREAM

IN THE HOUSE OF ORPHANS

IT HURT ME TO HEAR...

IT'S WINTER...

LOOKING BACK

LOSS

MEADOW IN SPRING

NIGHT JOURNEY

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE

ORPHEUS DESCENDING

ORPHEUS STOOD IN THE DARK...

PENELOPE/THE WHITE DOOR

REFUSING

SCARLET T-SHIRT: THE LYRIC MUSE

SHE PAUSED

SUSPICIONS

CHANGE

CHERRY ORCHARDS

DOOR

HINGE

MAENADS

MOTORCYCLE

PATH

SEARCH

VISITOR

THREE SMALL SONGS

TOMB OF ORPHEUS

UNDER PRESSURE

WARNED HIS SONG... (DEATH OF ORPHEUS)

WAS ALL...

WE'VE COME

WHO'D WANT TO BE A MAN?



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