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Author: di prima, diane Matches Found: 428 Di Prima, Diane Poet's Biography 428 poems available by this author & FROM WHEREVER THOU WILLST THOU GATHEREST ME First Line: Steel, from the belly of aries Last Line: Because I gnaw at the boundaries of the light & IN ALL THINGS AM I DISPERSED First Line: Gold fleece on the hunted deer Last Line: Like a shaky boat, it is %the winking eye of god (DREAM OF EMILY DICKINSON AS IMMATERIAL SURF BREAKING) Last Line: & all in the mind 1 MRN 38.30 First Line: Some nights %I hear without straining Last Line: Inside my head, or out there? 4 TAKES, SAME HAIKU First Line: First storm of autumn Last Line: Autumn storms begin ABYSS First Line: It really irks me to think I'm afraid of heights Last Line: Her skirt tucked into her belt ALL NIGHT LONG WE Last Line: All night long, yr %steady %jelly roll AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION Poem Text First Line: Were we not fine Last Line: Bright glance, where is our song now / our sorrow Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION First Line: Were we not fine Last Line: Bright glance, where is our song now %our sorrow? Subject(s): Native Americans AN EXERCISE IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: My friend wears my scarf at his waist Subject(s): Love AND LOBA IS LOVHA, OR LOUVA Last Line: That we attend on %the passage AND SHE TO TRISTAN First Line: O it is not woods Last Line: I leave in a spray of stars AND THIS IS A CLEARING IN WHICH GLIDE - SPIRIT WOLVES Last Line: Spirit in extension %interface AND VERCHIEL First Line: His name is almost on my lips Last Line: Are found rarely in the %western tradition AND WHEN WE HAVE WON CLEAR Last Line: Return the dance to the pulses of the hunt AND WHERE THOU ART, I AM First Line: Astride the wind. Or held Last Line: What laughter spins you %around in the windy street? AND WILL YOU HUNT THE LOBA ? Last Line: Noli me tangere in jewels %across the sky ANNUNCIATION First Line: The tall man, towering Last Line: Began to spin the scarlet thread %for the temple ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY LETTER, 1988 First Line: Where is gestapo, where Last Line: But hungry %(eyes %blaze %over ancient guns ANTLERED / I FLEE HIM Last Line: The hounds of anger ANY DAY NOW First Line: How do you love is the question, and who Last Line: Love or not love & do you APPARUIT' First Line: There is some sweet woman Last Line: Stream toward %o shadow sister! APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA Poem Text First Line: Today is your / birthday and I have tried Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA First Line: Today is your %birthday and I have tried Last Line: And not be ashamed Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations APRIL FOOL POEM FOR GRANDPA Poem Text First Line: Today is yout Subject(s): Birthdays; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ARIADNE AS STARMAKER First Line: She draws me w/ a thread across the beams Last Line: Is she also %there ARMS - (BRANCHES / OF THE TREE Last Line: We read as guilt %(looking up ARS METALLURGICA First Line: Beneath the skin of metals a total love is growing Last Line: Each from the stream %in which it hath its beginning AULA LUCIS First Line: How shall I win you to me? Shall I toy Last Line: The same shall receive %all her treasures AUTOUR DE First Line: Do you understand Last Line: No light but her own AVE, FR. LOBA Poem Text First Line: O lost moon sisters Subject(s): Women AVE, FR. LOBA First Line: O lost moon sisters Last Line: Om star mother ma om %maya ma ah Subject(s): Women BABYLONIA First Line: The star rises over the stone gates Last Line: Into the river. %he sank like a stone BACKYARD First Line: Where angls turned into honeysuckle & poured nectar into my mouth Last Line: On black st. Stephen's steeple BANQUET First Line: Your face is craggy as the marin county hills Last Line: Gleams on the pillow between us BEACH First Line: Where I ship out from, the tides Last Line: & my choice, my monster lobster walked back %home BEARS SEE ONLY Last Line: This is important BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE BURNING GROUNDS Last Line: I await you with closed eyes BEFORE COMPLETION First Line: Like wind, dispersing, like some huge Last Line: Erode, the desert %spreads to the sea BEING IN LOVE WITH DARKNESS First Line: It shows %us off Last Line: Encasing starlight for a million years BELI - ISHTAR - THE WHITE LADY - MOTHER OF ALL LIVING - CERRIDWEN Last Line: Neith - mother - hubur - ninmah - ninul - nisaba - canyonlady BELTAIN NOTE First Line: This road to blackest memory' Last Line: Leads thru %the double helix BIOLOGY LESSON First Line: It's sinister how everything comes alive Last Line: They were dead wrong about no spontaneous %generation BLACKOUT First Line: Machinery has no part in it, what comes apart Last Line: Your laugh. Your hands at the window, wanting in BODY ITSELF IS THE VECTOR Last Line: It carries %another order BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: I read / sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum Last Line: & the mountains Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION First Line: I read %sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum Last Line: Nothing lasts long %nothing %but earth %& the mountains Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation BUDDHIST NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: I saw you in green velvet, wide full sleeves Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists BUDDHIST NEW YEAR SONG First Line: I saw you in green velvet, wide full sleeves Last Line: A madness, or a beginning? BULL / BELONGS TO THE MOON Last Line: His blood. The sun %fills him up BUS RIDE First Line: I thought at first it was from the shore of sicily you had taken me Last Line: Greeting the winter sun at the edge of the world BUT IN GATHERING ME THOU GATHEREST THYSELF First Line: Daystar that hovers Last Line: The shafts of dawn like agony %down the night BUT IN THE LONGHOUSE Last Line: Moved like an arc %across the gap %(ravine BUT WE CANT Last Line: Not fresh rose CAN YOU, FRIEND, SAY YOU NEVER LEANED Last Line: A tattered army blanket over %her swollen face CANTICLE OF ST. JOAN First Line: It is in god's hands. How can I decide Last Line: O little children's bones! The sword & cup %are shivered into stars CAUSE & EFFECT First Line: Madyamika %yogacarin %our eyes are red Last Line: I tremble %awaiting a new name CHANCE ARRANGEMENT OF CONSTELLATION Last Line: Maze %at the temple %gate CHILDHOOD OF THE LOBA First Line: Not that he was not strong, but his gentleness Last Line: Wove dreams around eight suns CHRONOLOGY Poem Text First Line: I loved youj in october CHRONOLOGY First Line: I loved you in october Last Line: Carries your new songs in snatches thru the windows %of our sad, high, pretty rooms CLEARING IN AUTUMN First Line: Hot sun & cold wind. Bank of fog sits Last Line: Inaudible cries as I spin toward %the sun CONVERSATIONS: AND FACE THE DAY First Line: I was watching a mobile. It was a calder-circles and discs inside each Last Line: Don't worry. It's not important CONVERSATIONS: DEAD OF WINTER First Line: How are things ben said. He brushed the snow off his sweater and sat Last Line: Like man you can always stay here. I hoped to god he wouldn't CONVERSATIONS: NEW YORK IS A SUMMER FESTIVAL First Line: The rats were all right I said it was the rooster Last Line: Shit I said shit. Oh shit. %I locked the door CONVERSATIONS: NO SAVIORS FOR THIS RACE First Line: For christ sake not the war again I thought Last Line: Not this time I said CONVERSATIONS: SOME FOOL THING First Line: Anyway I said you can always be a painter Last Line: Don't go and do some fool thing I said. I was very tired CONVERSATIONS: THE ART CLASS First Line: You have such a lyrical face said irma. She poked her canvas Last Line: Darling doesn't mean it's art CONVERSATIONS: THE CONFERENCE First Line: Well I said that's the layout. Now what? Last Line: No I said. I got up and took the book. We're not helpless I told him CONVERSATIONS: THE END OF WINTER First Line: Don came into the room and I woke up Last Line: Yeah I said as bad as that CONVERSATIONS: THE FRENCHMAN First Line: Leon said come here will you. He was using his accent Last Line: Yes he said I am uncool. He was proud of it CONVERSATIONS: THE LOVERS First Line: It would be nice she said to have a whole night sometime. She tied her Last Line: Then she grinned. %you'll go she told him CONVERSATIONS: THE POET First Line: You gotta love he said. The world is full of children of sorrow and I am Last Line: I know I said. And you weep CONVERSATIONS: THE QUARREL First Line: You know I said to mark that I'm furious at you Last Line: Hey hon mark yelled at me from the living room. It says here picasso pro-%duces fourteen hours a day Variant Title(s): The Quarre CONVERSATIONS: THE START OF WINTER First Line: Brad said ok let's do it Last Line: Maybe we better do it before april I told brad. Just in case you make the %company CONVERSATIONS: THE VISITOR First Line: Well he said so you're lee. He stood in the doorway Last Line: I really would like to read it I said to him. %yeah he said CONVERSATIONS: WHILE THEY LAST First Line: Let me sit on the inside I said Last Line: Write those before or after he cut off his ear? CORONATION First Line: I have unfolded from this flowering crystal Last Line: Broomless, unarmed, unready %I will fly COSCIA'S: NOVEMBER 1963 First Line: I expect a certain amount of Last Line: What more tiara now, for you or I? COUGAR NIGHT REPORT First Line: O he flashes purple Last Line: By a thread %in the threatening %light CREVASSE First Line: Every ravine a %glimpse Last Line: Farther %from %the sea CRITIC REVIEWS LOBA First Line: Where is the history in this, %how Last Line: Thru this quivering %flesh seepod / %cosmos CRYSTAL PYRAMID W/ DIAMOND HEART Last Line: Shoe of the goddess DAWN SEQUENCE First Line: Birds %& alarm clocks %chirp Last Line: Her real beauty begins to shine thru DAY LAY LIKE A PEARL ON HER LAP Last Line: Broke on, as on the waves DEATH & THE LOBA First Line: Now you are near Last Line: My blind head %under my arm DEATH SUNYATA CHANT: A RITE FOR PASSING OVER Poem Text First Line: If there is a pure land Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists DEATH SUNYATA CHANT: A RITE FOR PASSING OVER First Line: If there is a pure land Last Line: That all is well Subject(s): Buddhism DEE'S SONG First Line: Velvet lady, lay on velvet pillows Last Line: My sister in a cage, sleep tight DEER LEAP First Line: High hart at deer leap, park Last Line: Shivers & bursts like diamonds %in the heart DELICIOUS THE FLESH SHE OFFERS, LIKE SUCCULENT Last Line: Beyond the stars DIAMOND, QUARTZ, AGATE, IT IS LABYRINTH Last Line: Dark o'the moon DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES First Line: There are knowable numbers too Last Line: Who yearns to be himself %& frighten no one DREAM POEM First Line: There is a fire above the ramparts of the world Last Line: A fire burns behind the skin of the world DREAM: THE LOBA REVEALS HERSELF First Line: She came %to hunt me down; carried down-ladder trussed Last Line: Leave the children with. %mother & sister. %myself ENDURANCE. WHAT REMAINS Last Line: The serpent, brazen, rearing EROS/ANIMUS First Line: Black body glistening, he stands Last Line: In %or out %of his body EVEN W/ JEWELS ON HER EYES SHE CD NOT DREAM Last Line: She leaned into the sound EXERCISE IN LOVE First Line: My friend wears my scarf at his waist Last Line: I awake in the smell of his hair & cannot remember %his name, or my own FIRE GUARDIAN First Line: Let yrself be seen as shadow Last Line: Soul-stuff (we call it %joy FIRST SNOW, KERHONKSON Poem Text First Line: This, then, is the gift the world has given me Subject(s): Snow FIRST SNOW, KERHONKSON First Line: This, then, is the gift the world has given me Last Line: White silence filling the contours of my life FLIGHT INTO EGYPT First Line: Stone force. Stone heart, I move Last Line: Keep off the sun FOR BELLA AKHMADULINA First Line: A life for a life, a young black Last Line: I know it won't be worse FOR BILL VITT Poem Text First Line: Brother, I rest on your arm Last Line: & I need no dream Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Togetherness; Half-brothers FOR BILL VITT First Line: Brother, I rest on your arm Last Line: & I need no dream Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Togetherness FOR BLAKE First Line: By now it is too late to wonder Last Line: All our eyes remembering love FOR CAMERON First Line: How was woman broken Last Line: Or yr slack breast under my hand FOR H.D. First Line: Trophies of pain I've gathered. Whose sorrow Last Line: Song for salt FOR PIGPEN First Line: Velvet at the edge of the tongue Last Line: Spill velvet damage on the edge %of history FOR THE DEAD LECTURER First Line: The dead can sing Last Line: I'll kill you yet %so your song can fill my life FOR ZELLA, PAINTING First Line: What are you Last Line: And from your hands the cadmiums run, shouting FOUR POETS SPEAK OF HER First Line: She was, herself, the dweller in the shrine Last Line: In the cold light of dawn. A chinese scroll: %four poets / %nodding out FRAGMENTED ADDRESS TO THE FBI Poem Text First Line: O do you in fedora or trenchcoat bear record Last Line: Rise singing above the trees Subject(s): Federal Bureau Of Investigation; Fbi FRAGMENTED ADDRESS TO THE FBI First Line: O do you in fedora or trenchcoat bear record Last Line: Rise singing above the trees Subject(s): Federal Bureau Of Investigation FROM THE WISHED UNIVERSE Last Line: We scale %like bandit children GIRL HAD BROUGHT THE WEATHER WITH HER First Line: It clung like smoke around her torso Last Line: Brushed against it, going down GOOD CLEAN FUN First Line: It's terrorism, isn't it, when you're afraid to answer the Last Line: Mere diversionary tactics before the onslaught GOODBYE NKRUMAH First Line: And yet, where would we be without the american culture Last Line: And it is their calm that will finish us, it is the calm %ofthe earth itself GUARDAVIAZ! First Line: If you stood again framed, by window Last Line: Might have sharpened our senses GUINEVERE First Line: Do you understand, beloved? It was Last Line: For the sweeter than shame %is the fire GWALCHMAI First Line: Whenver I am alone I find a fountain Last Line: The woman dressed in red HANDFUL OF STARCHIPS THROWN Last Line: It does not stop her, either HEADLANDS: THE MUSIC First Line: What remains are the poppies Last Line: Of colors. %a language of light HELEN ON THE WALL Last Line: This is helen's tale HER DREAM First Line: You are walking the streets of omaha Last Line: Coming to terms w/ impermanence %is on your lips HER POWER IS TO OPEN WHAT IS SHUT, SHUT WHAT IS OPEN Poem Text First Line: Her power is to fall like razors Last Line: Curled on the greenwood fires Subject(s): Women HERMETIC ASTRONOMY First Line: Sow yr gold %in the white Last Line: We claim the sun HINAYANA First Line: We are having spring %he said at summer solstice Last Line: Stalks a secret %in the tall spring grass HORNED LADY Last Line: Flanked by owls HOW DO THE GODS MANIFEST, WHERE DO THEY Last Line: White pelt under the flowing waters HOW HE DREW HER DOWN TO PLEASURE! SHE LEFT Last Line: Fell like water on him HUNTRESS. SHE IN RED SARI Last Line: Cannot raise the horse from the ground HYMN: THE OTHER FACE First Line: Lucus %lycos %grove of light Last Line: On planes of light: %forest floor I AM A SHADOW CROSSING ICE Last Line: I stare out of broken cupboards I AM THOU & THOU ART I First Line: Where tossing in grey sheets you weep Last Line: Struggling eternally against %these swaddling clothes I CHING Poem Text First Line: Mountain & lake Last Line: That they lean against Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) I CHING First Line: Mountain & lake Last Line: But the white care stays the same %that they lean against Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) I DRAW A CIRCLE ABOUT ME Last Line: I throw dirt in your eyes I FAIL AS A DHARMA TEACHER Poem Text First Line: I don't imagine I'll manage to express sunyata Last Line: Swimming in and through us like transparent fish Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists I FAIL AS A DHARMA TEACHER First Line: I don't imagine I'll manage to express sunyata Last Line: Swimming in and through us like transparent fish Subject(s): Buddhism I GET MY PERIOD, SEPTEMBER 1964 First Line: How can I forgive you this blood? Last Line: Which meant to be something else I TRY TO MAKE AN IMAGE OF ILLUSION Last Line: What artist could make an image %w/ such eyes I WAS DRAWN TO THIS WORLD Last Line: Rock me to sleep in your arms I'M BITING AT YR LEASH, I'M PLOTTING Last Line: With me, to somewhere else IMAGO MUNDI First Line: Who stands in the sun Last Line: Fly by - on the fiery winds IN MEMORY OF MY FIRST CHAPATIS First Line: If we had dope for an excuse, or love Last Line: Bursting the air with perennial desperations IN WHOSE DREAM Last Line: To go like her on all fours INANNA: THE EPIPHANY First Line: Before the first days, when no one numbered the moons Last Line: She came to the sea INFLUENCE (WOOING) First Line: I am no Last Line: Alone, my tears drop %thinking of winter INTERLOPER First Line: Brazen %head %(of brass Last Line: Swathe, sister. %stand clear IS HE IN BONDAGE? DOES HE BOW Last Line: Crouches for him, raises %her haunch IS IT / FROZEN FLESH OR POLISHED BONE? Last Line: Carved out %& %polished to ivory IS IT SHE IN FLAME AT HEART Last Line: What is unfolding from %these preposterous stars ISEULT ON THE SHIP First Line: Is there other time Last Line: Rocks, more than the ocean ISHTAR First Line: Deliberate as the shell of a body you offer Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women ISHTAR First Line: Deliberate as the shell of a body you offer Last Line: To wrap them round Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women IT IS STILL NEWS TO HER THAT PASSION Last Line: Come out all right JOHN DEE First Line: Thru the transparency of water is the explication of light Last Line: Like frost on the glass our tears %make of the heavens JULIANA First Line: And now, friend, I do not know Last Line: Rocked on the threshold JUNGLE First Line: Time & time again the laughter after the footsteps Last Line: That the block of ice which binds us %binds us both KALI'S GREATNESS IS INCREASED BY THE ONE WITH MATTED HAIR Last Line: He lies at her feet KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EPIPHANY & THEOPHANY Last Line: All 'honor' %is derivative LADY IS FRESH AS JASMINE Last Line: Who worships the sky-clad mother %is dear to all gods LAMENT First Line: The great emperor death has called my son %to his service Last Line: & strolled into the twilight %with flowers on her hat LETTER TO JEANNE (AT TASSAJARA) First Line: Dry heat of the tassajara canyon Last Line: Like fire light up your beauty years %on these new, jagged hills LETTER TO JEANNE (FROM TASJARA) Poem Text First Line: Dry heat of the tasajara canyon Last Line: On these new, jagged hills Subject(s): Youth LETTER TO SHEPPARD First Line: From the dining tent %shouts & laughter Last Line: As if for the first time LIGHT MADE MY BODY TO LIVE Last Line: Speech of the dream LIGHT POEM First Line: Light on dry hayfields, the cedar Last Line: Light crackling around %the body. %field LILITH OF THE STARS First Line: For there is another lilith, not made for earth Last Line: White fox that leaps over tombstones LIMANTOUR BEACH--1 First Line: Dark o' the moon, but Last Line: & the sea's %pouring gold on the land LIMANTOUR BEACH--2 First Line: Surf riding in/spray torn off Last Line: Kids building towers in the rising tide LITANY First Line: I have been a black cat in a silver chair Last Line: I shall rise, like the full moon, from that cemetery LOBA ADDRESSES THE GODDESS / OR THE POET AS PRIESTESS... First Line: Is it not in yr service that I wear myself out Last Line: Our skins ache of emergence / dark o' the moon Variant Title(s): The Loba Addresses The Goddess/ Or The Poet As Priestess Addresses.. LOBA AS EVE First Line: I am thou & thou art I Last Line: Thou gatherest thyself %--gospel of eve LOBA AS KORE IN THE LABYRINTH OF HER BEAUTY First Line: This is a journey to egypt LOBA COMPARES THE EARTHLY & HEAVENLY MOTHERS First Line: A corpse too gave me birth it was Last Line: Ascend to the net of stars LOBA CONTINUES TO SING First Line: I will make you flesh again Last Line: Sad beast eyes %share this sorrow LOBA DANCES First Line: She raises %in flames Last Line: Her breath %itself %is carnage LOBA IN BROOKLYN First Line: Her snout %pokes thru wrought iron Last Line: We call it %sophic fire LOBA IN CHILDBED First Line: She lay in bed, screaming, the boat LOBA IN FLANDERS First Line: I am in the light & Last Line: To my swollen stomach LOBA LONGS FOR REMEMBRANCE IN THE BARDO First Line: Shall we say that the streets were littered Last Line: Who will recall it, later LOBA OLD First Line: With what suffering do I finally recall Last Line: Sit still, till I die of thirst LOBA PREPARES AN AMULET FOR HER DAUGHTER First Line: It was not fate she feared Last Line: To hem her round LOBA PRIESTESS AS BAG LADY UTTERS RAGGED WARNINGS First Line: Don't %cheapen aphrodite, don't sell Last Line: They are not %your toys LOBA RECOVERS THE MEMORY OF A MARE First Line: Small hooves %the ankles fragile Last Line: Unrooted, she walks %into the wind LOBA SINGS TO HER CUB First Line: O my mole, sudden & perfect LOBA, IN MAY First Line: And yet, she knows, no one has loved her enough nor can Last Line: Her supple, 16-yr-old limbs %brushes %her thick hair LOBA, TO APOLLO, AT THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALING First Line: Now dervish I slough off Last Line: To be born %in uniqueness LOBA: 1 Poem Text First Line: If her did not come apart in her hands, he fell Last Line: W/ her wolf's eyes out of your head? Subject(s): Women LOBA: 1 First Line: If her did not come apart in her hands, he fell Last Line: W/her wolf's eyes out of your head? Subject(s): Women LOBA: THE WINDS OF CHANGE First Line: Bear - birrow - barrow - burrin Last Line: Burnished, %it burns LORD JIM First Line: Forcing it thru yr teeth like the red syrup Last Line: The green & flickering sea that comes to meet us LOVE SONG OF THE LOBA First Line: O my lord, blue beast Last Line: O lost lord %of the failing hills MADNESS OF THE LOBA First Line: Is it the molten core of the earth Last Line: For breath it is necklace, seemly %ornament, agony %of size MAGICK IN THEORY & PRACTICE First Line: To all you with gaunt cheeks who sit Last Line: Called past as I move backwards over %its black velvet floor MAKE ME MAD, O MOTHER! Last Line: Make me rich, beloved, in the madness of your joy MARRIAGE AT CANA First Line: Window %it is %window - on pain Last Line: In that %moon's shadow MASK IS THE PATH OF THE STAR First Line: Stubs of horns %snout Last Line: We read %as hologram %'eternal city MEDUSA GAZEBO First Line: Blue babies birthing Last Line: To eat no more MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 1 First Line: So I said to him hey mister what're you doing with that h bomb how Last Line: So I went home MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 2 First Line: So my mother was in the kitchen and I ran in and I said to her hey ma Last Line: Nothing out there but the tree MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 3 First Line: So I waited till my father came home and by then it was dark. And I said Last Line: There's no man out there MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 4 First Line: So we had supper and after supper I went to my grandfather's room to Last Line: And he said I believe in god sonny and god will never let it happen now %go play MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 5 First Line: So I went out to play and I got dick and he said to me hey you know Last Line: Thinking he might drop it in his sleep especially if he had bad dreams MEMORY OF FAR THINGS Last Line: Of graveyard, & swamp MIDSUMMER First Line: Apex %of light, %confusion of greens Last Line: Whom does the grail serve? MINNESOTA MORNING ODE First Line: The city of the sun is coming! I hear it! I smell it! Last Line: The strong, bright light of flesh which is the link %the laughter, which transmutes MINOR ARCANA First Line: Body %whose flesh Last Line: Now tell the tale MONTEZUMA Poem Text First Line: To give it away, give it up, before they take it from us Last Line: And yet no city is ever built again Subject(s): Montezuma Ii (1466-1520) MONTEZUMA First Line: To give it away, give it up, before they take it from us Last Line: And yet no city is ever built again Subject(s): Montezuma Ii (1466-1520) MORE OR LESS LOVE POEM: YOU ARE NOT QUITE Last Line: Thank god %so go MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS First Line: They all say Last Line: So distance holds, so love is safe MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: BUT BABE Last Line: The week %in town %with MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: DAMN YOU Last Line: Which makes it hard %on rocks MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: HERE WITH THE LAKE FOR COMFORT Last Line: This here's no place to think of beer. %all green MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: I DON'T FORGET THINGS Last Line: Like that's uncool MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: I HOPE Last Line: Can pick up on %this dawn MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: IN CASE YOU PUT ME DOWN Last Line: In case you put me down it won't help much MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: IN YOUR ARMS BABY Last Line: To turn on %the phonograph MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: NO APETURE OF YOUR BODY Last Line: In the hollow of your neck %a tongue %goes gently MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: NO BABE Last Line: Would be something wild MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: NOTICE TO ALL Last Line: Claim %in the rocky mountains MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SO BABE Last Line: Just cause %the house burned down? MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THE WORD YOU WHISPERED Last Line: Your face %went nearly %out MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THEY ALL SAY Last Line: Gets in my eyes MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: YOU ARE MY BREAD Last Line: And shine %unspent and underground MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: YOUR TONGUE Last Line: Like jailbreaks %in my head MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: LULLABY First Line: Sleep lad %lie easy %now don't you moan Last Line: It happened %accidental MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: POEMS FOR BRET First Line: I've caught you at it %mister %with your Last Line: To know we're both %uncool MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: REQUIEM First Line: I think %you'll find %a coffin Last Line: I think %your lips %won't like it %by themselves MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE First Line: Wow man I said %when you tipped my chin and fed Last Line: And my two books and cut and that was that MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SONG AT 24 First Line: Time %has eaten my innocence like a pistachio nut Last Line: And holes in my shoes? MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SONGS FOR BABIO, UNBORN First Line: Body %whose flesh %has crossed my will? Last Line: Enough to love %to break your heart %forever MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SONGS TO SPRING First Line: Spring %you're nice Last Line: Till dawn %and then %dancing the day MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MONOS First Line: Monos %they say %went mad Last Line: They say %he never %wept MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THREE LAMENTS First Line: Alas %I believe %I might have become Last Line: I chew my pride %like cud MY LADY, WE ARE BEING HUNTED First Line: Possibility we are poisoned, possibility Last Line: Possibility that we shd cut & run MY LOVER'S EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN First Line: These eyes are amber, they Last Line: Like spiderman, at windows %not our own Variant Title(s): My Lover's Eyes Are Nothing Like The Su MY MOTHER IS MAD, MY FATHER IS MAD, THEIR TWO DISCIPLES - MAD Last Line: And who but she would wear a necklace of heads NARROW PATH INTO THE BACK COUNTRY First Line: You are flying to dahomey, going back Last Line: Fine-wrought enough for our joy. %for all our joy NATIVITY First Line: Dark timbers of lost forests falling into my bed Last Line: Does not end %his dance NIGHTMARES: 10 First Line: I saw it man, I read it in one of their god damned trade journals Last Line: You can say I'm mad but that don't mean I'm crazy. Ask any cabdriver NIGHTMARES: 13 Last Line: It hurts to be murdered NIGHTMARES: 2 First Line: Having a cleaner house than usual I did the dishes. Gathering those long Last Line: Larger roach, obviously leader, nudged me to see if I too could be car- %ried off NIGHTMARES: 3 First Line: Spent fascinated hours watching the uncool of a young moth doing herself Last Line: And screaming 'dido' followed her NIGHTMARES: 6 Last Line: Get your cut throat off my knife NIGHTMARES: 8 First Line: Then I was standing in line unemployment green institution green room Last Line: Here are your twenty reasons for living sir Variant Title(s): Thirteen Nightmares: NO PROBLEM PARTY POEM First Line: First glass broken on patio no problem Last Line: Make a quick getaway. No problem NOTE ON THE ABOVE First Line: Our death %belongs to psyche Last Line: Of the spirit's %business NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY Poem Text First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: Makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: That fills us %makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Do they hate me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Strike & move on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOVEMBER First Line: If there's one pain that I can't bear Last Line: And the fancy we called love has made an end NOW BORN IN UNIQUENESS, JOIN THE COMMON QUEST First Line: I come to speak of the long & slender vase Last Line: Does the vessel drink NUMBERS RACKET First Line: When you take no for an answer Last Line: Now, taking no %for an answer O MAKE LATONA WHITE. SMOOTH OUT HER HAIR Last Line: Brushes the day star O MIND, YOU HAVE LOST THE ROOT Last Line: Speak mantra w/ pure breath O MOTHER, PUT ON A ROBE & COVER YOURSELF Last Line: I too become mad with the hope of seeing you O TASTE THE / ROSE-PETAL WINE Last Line: The evening & the morning stars %span time O THE UNMATCHED BEAUTY OF THIS DISHEVELLED WOMAN Last Line: He pretends to be dead, to feel your feet on his heart ODE TO ELEGANCE First Line: And praise the grace, the elegance of body. Your hands Last Line: The ferris wheel has started up again' ODE TO KEATS First Line: Had you lived longer than your 26 years Last Line: I shall melt into them ODE TO KEATS, 2, THE DREAM Poem Text Recitation First Line: Hedged about as we are with prayers Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares OH LIL! YOU PROMISED ME SECRETS OF MUSHROOM & FERN Last Line: On yr murderous black crossroads ON SITTING DOWN TO WRITE Recitation First Line: I decide instead to go to fred herko's concert ON SITTING DOWN TO WRITE, I DECIDE INSTEAD TO GO... First Line: As water, silk Last Line: I came here %after all OR IS SHE SOFT Last Line: Faust too, he thought so OR SHE TAKES YR SHAPE, SHE BITES Last Line: He rubs his eyes PAINTING OF THE LOBA First Line: It is in a dark & gloomy canyon Last Line: Like a moving scroll: the moon & she stand still PARACELSUS First Line: Extract the juice which is itself a light Last Line: Out of the ash, the eidolon of the world %crystalline. %perfect PARACELSUS: Poem Text First Line: Extract the juice which is itself a light. Subject(s): Paracelsus (1493-1541) PART OF THE THOUSAND WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (PSYCHE TO AMOR) First Line: Goodbye to the wings of light outlined Last Line: I am %told to hurry I am not sure %if toward death %or a further life PARTHENOS First Line: The black stone shines tho its Last Line: Her feathered skull - athena %new %beginnings PARTY First Line: War is our carnival Last Line: My way %to say goodbye PERSEPHONE First Line: And must I return again to that Last Line: Is lost in vast darkness of galactic air PERSEPHONE: REPRISE First Line: One 'life' is not more real than the other Last Line: Where I go down to bleed, to birth, to die Variant Title(s): Psyche And The Maiden PETER HARTMAN'S SEQUENCE First Line: Rain falls %my tears do not Last Line: Of reflected light %from the gomdens PHOSPHOROS First Line: The morning star casts light on all Last Line: Precise as mathematics Subject(s): Morning Star POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS) Poem Text Recitation First Line: I suppose it hasn't been easy living with me either Last Line: Where they are going Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS) First Line: I suppose it hasn't been easy living with me either Last Line: About which they know nothing, to find out %where they are going Subject(s): Marriage POEM OF REFUSALS First Line: No strong men in shirtsleeves Last Line: But I burned the script %where I meet your eyes & smile POET PRAYS TO THE LOBA First Line: O lady %the hem of whose garment Last Line: O smile, disrobe for us, unveil your eyes POET, SEEKING HER First Line: Did she sit all day on that donkey Last Line: & they the pleiades - was she always the moon POETICS First Line: I have deserted my post, I cdnt hold it Last Line: Corner me in the coral & I die POETRY DEAL First Line: I want to say that I don't want anything Last Line: And which is the quasar? POINT OF RIPENING: LUGHNASA First Line: There is no myth Last Line: Some myth that encompasses that PRACTICE OF MAGICAL EVOCATION First Line: I am a woman and my poems Last Line: What rhythm add to stillness %what applause? Subject(s): Women PRAJAPATI First Line: O lord of beasts Last Line: Draw closer %look in his eyes PRAYER TO THE ANCESTORS First Line: O you who burn forever wheeling Last Line: To glory now (the depths %of space a single sheet of flame PRAYER TO THE MOTHERS First Line: They say you lurk here still, perhaps Last Line: I am afraid to hear %your songs PROPHETISSA: & OUT OF THE THREE THE FOUR, AS ONE First Line: This is the mystery of which we Last Line: O breathe %against my skin Subject(s): Prophets And Prophecy PROPHETISSA: THREE FROM TWO First Line: Bent %like bow. This is Last Line: Again %he is other %than fire Subject(s): Prophets And Prophecy PROPHETISSA: TWO FROM ONE First Line: Know this wind as Last Line: Hold orbit %spiraling %& reach Subject(s): Prophets And Prophecy RAMADA INN, DENVER First Line: It's taken a whole day to get from great falls to casper Last Line: & walk what I hope is a straight line to the door RANT Poem Text First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: Anything else Subject(s): Imagination; War; Fancy RANT First Line: You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology Last Line: The polis is constellated around the sun %the fire is central Subject(s): Imagination; War RANT, FROM A COOL PLACE First Line: We are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution Last Line: From the very first nothing REEDGATHERERS: THE LOBA NORTH First Line: This is a song Last Line: So does this song REPORT TO APHRODITE (EVENING) First Line: In her service & not Last Line: To drown %& drown again REPRISE First Line: Stumbled keening %tongue cut out Last Line: The black water %apollo %abhors REQUIEM First Line: I think %you'll find Last Line: I think %your lips %won't like it %by themselves RESURRECTION First Line: O what have I spun out of entrails Last Line: Keep back, - I leap %thru flaming hoop REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 1 First Line: I have just realized that the stakes are myself Last Line: (we hope) between the lines REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 12 First Line: The vortex of creation is the vortex of destruction Last Line: Rooted as he is in the past he sets out to destroy REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 13 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now let me tell you REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 16 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We are eating up the planet. The new york times Subject(s): Ecology REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 19 Poem Text First Line: If what you want is jobs Last Line: You can have what you ask for, ask for everything Subject(s): Poverty REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 19 First Line: If what you want is jobs Last Line: You can have what you ask for, ask for %everything Subject(s): Poverty REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 20 First Line: I will not rest REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 29 First Line: Beware of those Last Line: Goodmorning sister, let me %fight by your side REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 32 First Line: Not western civilization, but civilization itself REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 36 First Line: Who is the we, who is Last Line: Make heavy hearts and to them %life is suffering. Stand clear REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 4 First Line: Left to themselves people Last Line: Our babes toddle barefoot thru the cities of the universe REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 49 Recitation by Author First Line: Free julian beck Subject(s): Liberty REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 51 Poem Text First Line: Know this wind as Last Line: Consume, whatever naem you call it Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 54. HOW TO BECOME A WALKING ALCHEMICA First Line: Eat mercury (in wheat & fish) Last Line: & cook the mixture in the heat %of an atomic explosion REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 68. LIFE CHANT First Line: Cacophony of small birds at dawn Last Line: May it continue REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 7 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There are those who can tell you RONDEAU FOR THE YULE First Line: I got away with it all summer will Last Line: O winter closing down on our separate shells RUSES: A COYOTE TALE First Line: Sometimes you take up the trap & Last Line: At such times it is unnecessary to sing SACRED GEOMETRY First Line: Cross-hatching on stone / & wind Last Line: It is then the white stair glistens SEATTLE SONG First Line: Stray cat, climbing in my window Last Line: You just ain't coming here any more SECOND DAUGHTER: LI (BRIGHTNESS) First Line: You enter power, but I am here before you Last Line: Like flame, it holds us fast SHE FLIES OVER PARTITIONS ON THE Last Line: & do you dare %win at her game SHE HAS NOT LEFT ME - THO I HAVE PUBLISHED OUR SECRETS Last Line: Continuously, %no epiphany %only presence SHE IS NOT HELEN. ON EVERY BRANCH OF THE TREE Last Line: It is flesh, it is flesh, it is lilith. Interface SHE IS OPPOSED TO CUSTOM Last Line: All the world's aflame SHE IS THE SCRUB OAK, JUNIPER Last Line: Floats glistening to shore on %turquoise seas SHE IS THE WIND YOU NEVER LEAVE BEHIND Last Line: When you run flaming %down %to the black sea SHE LAY / ON THE STRAW MAT Last Line: On her lips, her legs %akimbo SHE SLEEPS ON SHEEPSKINS IN YR DINING ROOM Last Line: Off her skinny shoulders, she sinks her teeth %in yr wrist SHE STRIDES IN BLUE JEANS TO THE CORNER Last Line: Wd ever guess her name SHE STRIDES ON THE BATTLEFIELD W/ LOOSENED HAIR Last Line: Her repeated war-cries pierce the sky SHE WHO First Line: She whose face we have never seen Last Line: It is at their hands that the gods of men receive power SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: Wow man I said Last Line: And my two books and cut and that was that Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE First Line: Wow man I said Last Line: And my two books and cut and that was that Subject(s): Language SIXTH NOTEBOOK INCANTATION First Line: Ping-ponging back & forth across america Last Line: How do you like it here?' 'I like it %very much.' SKETCHES OF THE LOBA First Line: She stood in the dark bar trying Last Line: Dance in her cavernous nostrils SLEALTH OF THIEVES Last Line: From a crystal %pitcher SOLSTICE 1993 First Line: Morning after solstice, I make my way Last Line: Will break my heart. I want to be %somewhere else SOME LIES ABOUT THE LOBA First Line: That she is eternal, that she sings Last Line: That there is anything to say of her %which is not truth SOME SHAPES OF THE LOBA First Line: White crow %in the snow Last Line: White bones & their shadows SOMETIMES SHE SLIPS SINUOUS THRU GREEN Last Line: Still ringing in your ears SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart / when you break thru Last Line: To break your heart forever Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN First Line: Sweetheart %when you break thru Last Line: To break your heart %forever Subject(s): Mothers; Pregnancy SONG OF HELOISE First Line: From out of the body of fire Last Line: How the flesh %adheres %in its %passing SONG OF THE DREAM-WOLVES First Line: They are coming, the jackals Last Line: The ripened wolf-feast SONNET SEQUENCE First Line: Nevertheless %there is something real %in the world Last Line: As wonderful as he. Failure %or fluctuation. Just my luck SPELL FOR FELICIA, THAT SHE COME AWAY First Line: Out of her Last Line: The kernel out of a peach pit, bitter and tasting %of strychnine STARS SHINE FOR US First Line: It was there that my heart faltered Last Line: Will you %measure %the dark STICKY NATURE OF Last Line: In nets %& trees %of light STUDIES IN LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Sun / caught in dew Last Line: We stand outside of Subject(s): Light STUDIES IN LIGHT First Line: Sun %caught in dew Last Line: Of earth %thinnest %piercing rays Subject(s): Light SUNWOLF: BELTAIN First Line: Where else the cunning / strength Last Line: She binds again to us SWALLOW SEQUENCE First Line: After hearing us take the precepts %the swallows decided Last Line: Wild roses barely tremble %as lightning splits the sky TAHUTI POEMS First Line: Where he passes is transfigured Last Line: The shapely mist. %walking. %his keen eye TAKEOFF, FLIGHT 347 First Line: Goodbye to %mountains of agate, amber, magic Last Line: Of windows lighting nothing, looking out %on strikers in the rain TARA First Line: On the airplane she said Last Line: Well, anyway whole wheat %is holy too TARA'S NAME MAKES ALL PROSPERITY VANISH. Last Line: O friends & brothers! Forget me! I am gone TASAJARA, 1969 Poem Text First Line: Even buddha is lost in this land Last Line: Coyotes met him Subject(s): Temples; Buddhism TASSAJARA, 1969 First Line: Even buddha is lost in this land Last Line: Bodhidharma came from the west. %coyote met him THE BELLTOWER Poem Text Recitation First Line: The weighing is done in autumn THE PRACTICE OF MAGICAL EVOCATION Poem Text Recitation First Line: I am a woman and my poems Subject(s): Women THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: You are my bread Subject(s): Love THEOLOGY BECOMES THE BODY POLITIC First Line: The king is expendable, but not the queen Last Line: The queen of heaven THESE DAYS First Line: Undisguisedly mirthful & given Last Line: Over yr dirt road & visit %with the children THEY CALL ME DRUNKARD, THOUGH I DRINK NO LIQUOR Last Line: And the divine bard loves you: she takes you on her lap THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 1 First Line: Well, I had gotten to a warmer place for starving and lived on beaches Last Line: Good day they said Variant Title(s): Nightmares: THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 10 First Line: I saw it man, I read it in one of their god damned trade journals Last Line: You can say I'm mad but that dont mean I'm crazy. Ask any cabdriver THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 11 First Line: I really must get a new vegetable brush. Everytime I forget and use it Last Line: On my face the vegetables I scrub next day turn brown and kinda %strange Variant Title(s): Nightmares: 1 THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 12 First Line: I went to the clinic. I twisted my foot I said Last Line: Oh he said. Perhaps you're right. I'll cut it off Variant Title(s): Nightmares: 1 THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 2 First Line: Having a cleaner house than usual I did the dishes. Gathering those Last Line: Slightly larger roach, obviously leader, nudged me to see if I too could %be carried off THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 3 First Line: Spent fascinated hours watching the uncool of a young moth doing Last Line: And screaming 'dido' followed her THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 4 First Line: Many days hungry laid out on table dish raw chopped questionable Last Line: To get the now beside her meal (she thought) for me, a mouse she %killed and died Variant Title(s): Nightmares: THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 5 First Line: Knock knock %who is it I said Last Line: Plenty of gas guess I wont eat Variant Title(s): Nightmares: THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 7 First Line: One day I forgot my sleeve and my heart pinned to my arm was Last Line: Now how much do you get? Variant Title(s): Nightmares: THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 9 First Line: Keep moving said the cop. The park closes at nine keep moving Last Line: It wasnt the first time theyd seen a catatonic tree Variant Title(s): Nightmares: THIS WOLF IS BLACK. SHE DOES NOT Last Line: To run circles around the sun THREE LAMENTS: 1 First Line: Alas %I believe %I might have become Last Line: The chairs %in the library %were too hard THREE LAMENTS: 2 First Line: I have %the upper hand Last Line: I'll lose the circulation %in one arm THREE LAMENTS: 3 First Line: So here I am the coolest in new york Last Line: I chew my pride %like cud THREE MORE SKETCHES OF THE LOBA First Line: Worldly & smooth as an Last Line: To pay her passage THREE POEMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER: 1 First Line: Her stone grey eyes like liquid mercury Last Line: I took the flower & turned in my heavy cloak THREE POEMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER: 2 First Line: Still heat in the lowlands; there is thunder among the clouds Last Line: This poem resembles thunder without lightning THREE POEMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER: 3 First Line: Like a bird hidden in the white throat of a lily Last Line: Carries me in the dark to the jade door of a star THUS LOVE / IN WOLF'S CLOTHING - STALKS Last Line: But the moist %expanse THUS THERE IS Last Line: The heaviness %viscosity %of presence TO BRING THE WHOLE FORM INTO SILENCE Last Line: Of the nuance of speech TO MY FATHER First Line: In my dreams you stand among roses Last Line: And weep for your wife, my mother TO MY FATHER - 2 Poem Text First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: Grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY FATHER - 2 First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: On the rooftops / of yr mind, but things %grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO TARA First Line: Rosebud, or fat baby cougar bending Last Line: Solemn as conch, the ritual %winks, among cypresses TO THE SPECTRE OF THE LECTURER, LONG DEAD First Line: Why it shd all Last Line: Not at all %what you remember TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH Poem Text First Line: Outside your temple wall. Stone or wood, I can't Last Line: Such a question Subject(s): Buddhism; Suicide; Buddha; Buddhists TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH First Line: Outside your temple wall. Stone or wood, I can't Last Line: Only a stupid person like yourself would ask such a question Subject(s): Buddhism; Suicide TRAJECTORY Poem Text First Line: Suffering, sd the lama, is the greatest blessing Last Line: Descend on us Subject(s): Pain; Buddhism TRAJECTORY First Line: Suffereing, sd the lama, is the greatest blessing Last Line: The hungry ghosts like a wind %descend on us TRAVELLING, AGAIN First Line: Tacoma airport. I am met by poet-in-residence. Tall as in Last Line: Like the weather, or william stafford, and walk on back TSOGYAL First Line: The central nerve is a white Last Line: So still %in this storm TWO DREAM SONGS: DREAM LOVE SONG First Line: Cotton-cloud woamn Last Line: The wetness in your hair %like dew in the grass TWO DREAM SONGS: SONG OF THE CRAB SPIRIT First Line: The blue turns to gold Last Line: Pebbles in the sea %stars in the sky TWO FROM GALLUP: 1. SAD IN GALLUP First Line: Motel row: sidewalk along Last Line: Pastel trailer camp: the santa fe %railroad joins in TWO FROM GALLUP: 2 First Line: Horny in gallup I think Last Line: The full thousand & more miles %away URSA First Line: Blessed to be here in spite of Last Line: Nor the earth %is enough %finally VECTOR First Line: This: to x plode Last Line: And I walk forward out of it %unembarrassed VISION OF THE HAG, DEVOURED First Line: Even these teats, devoured Last Line: Morning %je me souviens %l'aurore VISIT TO KATAGIRI ROSHI First Line: A pleasure. %we talk of here & there Last Line: It stays with me VISITATION: ELIZABETH & MARY First Line: Not the trees remain Last Line: Bringers of desolation %calling us blest WALPURGIS First Line: Let %it - lay. - transparency Last Line: It is %enough WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ROT? First Line: The light of the mind Last Line: Like the boiler of an engine WHAT I ATE WHERE First Line: The first I remember to tell of was the food on east fifth street. All kinds Last Line: She wrapped up the presents, the last of them was wrapped as it turned %light and we slept WHAT MORNING IS First Line: First you wake up and it is daylight but wrong with some hood honking a Last Line: Think yes ok I'll swing it WHAT WOMAN DANCES ON THIS BATTLEGROUND?' Last Line: My freedom is the fierce rhythm of her feet WHEN SHE HOOTS IT MAKES Last Line: Sideways in the flat light %off pueblo walls WHEN WILL HEART LOTUS BLOOM Last Line: Black woman scattering darkness in the dark WHERE DID IT Last Line: Ate a tomato WINDOW First Line: You are my bread Last Line: And shine %unspent and underground WISTERIA LIGHT Poem Text First Line: In the early days of eternity when none of us was naked as yet, and a good Last Line: In your mind's eye in front of the white sky before sunrise Subject(s): Wisteria WISTERIA LIGHT First Line: In the early days of eternity when none of us was naked as yet, and a good Last Line: In you mind's eye in front of the white sky before sunrise Subject(s): Wisteria WYOMING SERIES First Line: In october all the bodhisattvas come to wyoming Last Line: & cast of light. %beloved. Mystery YEOMAN OF THE GUARD First Line: The simplicity of it, you said, a different universe Last Line: & I (like hedy lamarr) shall tilt back my head %& suddenly smile YOU ARE THE DANCING YOUTH IN A CIRCLE OF MILKMAIDS Last Line: I know you, lady YOU ROLL, LISTING THRU GUMMY SHEETS LIKE SHIP Last Line: Have gone to seed ZERO First Line: A blessing on your velvet shoes Last Line: And that cruel wind that bore you here %bears you on eternally |
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