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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: olson, charles Matches Found: 922 Olson, Charles Poet's Biography 922 poems available by this author (LITERARY RESULT) First Line: That a cormorant fishes Last Line: My eye-view Subject(s): Poetry And Poets / NORTHWEST CORNER OF SHIFTING MAN CARRYING Last Line: Continuously, in this respect solely to %go 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. THE SOUTHEAST WIND Last Line: And is now %holes 128 A MOLE Last Line: To get at tyre 13 VESSELS, AND DAVID PEARCE'S Last Line: Presented in a bill to the federal government of $200,000 14 MEN STAGE HEAD WINTER 1624/5 First Line: They required Last Line: House, later endecott's, etc 1492-1942 First Line: Grip space aces and eights 17TH CENTURY MEN / WHO FOUNDED THIS LAND 1ST LETTER ON GEORGES First Line: February night, or august Last Line: The north, west and south 1ST LOT FROM THE CUTT Last Line: The sea added 2 PROPOSITIONS AND 3 PROOF First Line: He is a good workman 20-MAY-59 First Line: The moon must be in perigee the sea 23 SCHOOL AND 16 COLUMBIA Last Line: Myrtle and violets. And wood 2ND MUSICAL FORM, FOR DAVE YOUNG First Line: I'm modal, how are you, nicolas of cusa? 31-MAY-61 First Line: The lilac moon of the earth's backyard Last Line: Lilac moon %old backyard bloom 3RD LETTER ON GEORGES, UNWRITTEN First Line: [in this place is a poem which I have not been able Last Line: Here, of this fellow going home 3RD MORNING IT'S BEAUTIFUL - FEBRUARY Last Line: Has taught me 7 YEARS & YOU CLD CARRY CINDERS IN YR HAND Last Line: Can come %from canaan A LETTER, ON FISHING GROUNDS [OF, THE GULF OF MAINE] BY WALTER H. RICH Recitation by Author First Line: If the marine features Subject(s): Fish & Fishing A NEWLY DISCOVERED 'HOMERIC' HYMN (FOR JANE HARRISON) Poem Text First Line: Hail and beware the dead who will talk life until you are blue Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ABOVE THE HEAD OF JOHN DAY'S PASTURE LAND Last Line: Widow -- 1st parcel of all ---- ABSOLUTELY VERNAL First Line: The whole of creation shall come to his funeral ABSTRACT #1, YUCATAN First Line: The fish is speech, or see ABT THE DEAD HE SD ACCOUNT BOOK OF B ELLERY First Line: Vessels %goods Last Line: Salaries %conveyances ACROSS SPACE AND TIME First Line: If the great outside system - species and stars - proceeds Last Line: Capricorn is drawing the threads ADAMO ME ... First Line: Ride 'em, and, by the ride, down all night, all Last Line: (beauty notwithstanding) %more difficult ADAMO! ADAMO! SOMETHING HAS HARMED ADAMO! ADD AN EDDA First Line: Flat are the waters ADDED TO / MAKING A REPUBLIC Last Line: Proposing it. Or thinking it out or living it %ahead of time ADVANTAGE First Line: Where do these AFICA First Line: Hard water (waterfalls) AFTER THE STORM WAS OVER Last Line: Big enough for himself AFTERNOON First Line: A tiger came ALL COVERED WITH FEATHERS Last Line: Lustre a shoe %requires ALL HAVEN ASTERN First Line: I'm going to swim for my life ALL MY LIFE I'VE HEARD ABOUT MANY First Line: He went to spain Last Line: At norman's woe ALL NIGHT LONG Last Line: Which had not previously fit ALL PINK FROM THE BATH SHE SLEPT ALL THINGS STAND OUT AGAINST THE SKY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Between queen tiy (consort of amenophis iii, who reigned 1417-1379 b.C.) Last Line: That's wasted on the young Subject(s): Winter; Conduct Of Life ALL THINGS STAND OUT AGAINST THE SKY ALL YOU CAN DO First Line: Because a woman ALLEGORY OF WEALTH First Line: On the other phone, persephone: 'he crushed me - he creased my britches' ALLIGATOR Last Line: Rushing before AMERICANS First Line: What the cosmologist meant by what constitutes AMERICANS First Line: The cosmologist says AND MELANCHOLY First Line: Time's %unbearable complexity -- as though our souls Last Line: In the desire for death Subject(s): Death AND NOW LET ALL THE SHIPS COME IN Last Line: And the mind go forth to the end of the world AND NOW: THE WORLD! First Line: Enemies?' define ANECDOTES OF THE LATE WAR First Line: The lethargic vs violence as alternatives of each other for los americanos ANNIVERSARY First Line: On the north side of the telephone pole wet snow stuck ANUBIS WILL STARE APOPTIC; FOR RICHARD BRIDGEMAN First Line: Re-entry, without pillow, dear and the pieces Last Line: Flew into so many pieces of violent river-bottom APPLAUSE First Line: Out, all the way, without APRIL TODAY MAIN STREET First Line: As against now the gloucester Last Line: Now brings in %what %to main street ARISTOTLE & AUGUSTINE Poem Text Last Line: And in doing so beta'd / themselves Subject(s): Anaximander (610-547 B.c. ARISTOTLE & AUGUSTINE Last Line: And in doing so beta'd %themselves Subject(s): Anaximander (610-547 B.c.) ART CALLED GOTHONIC First Line: Armenian %george or isaac and james Last Line: Like new-land itself %eastward? AS CABEZA DE VACA WAS Last Line: A place in men's minds AS I WENT IN AND OUT I HEARD PIECES AS IF HALLAM MOVIUS AS OF BOZEMAN First Line: Red cloud (dab) succeeded AS OF PARSONSES OR FISHERMANS FIELD OR CRESSYS BEACH ... First Line: Swly to a plumb- %tree Last Line: Led our lives to be these things instead of kings AS OF WHAT'S / AHEAD AS SNOW LIES ON THE HILL Last Line: All back into blood AS THE DEAD PREY UPON US Poem Text Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The AS THE DEAD PREY UPON US Last Line: Has been hauled away AS THE SHIELD GODDESS, MYCENAE AS THEY PRAY UPON US AS THOUGH THERE WERE NO FLOWING ASSUMING THE SOUL IS A BITCH (1) First Line: That, then, becomes one have Last Line: Nothing %but all ASSUMING THE SOUL IS A BITCH (2) First Line: That then becomes you have Last Line: Sex nor mind %nothing ASTRIDE / THE CABOT / FAULT Last Line: To be lopped off the left shoulder ASYMPTOTES First Line: Yup, our disgraces are AT MIDNIGHT, AFTER HOURS OF LOVE, I ATE AT THE BOUNDARY OF THE MIGHTY WORLD Last Line: Is the end boundary %disappear AT YORKTOWN First Line: At yorktown the church Last Line: From a martin's %back ATALANTA Poem Text First Line: Atalanta ran swift course Last Line: Ended the body of a boy's alarms Subject(s): Atalanta ATALANTA Poem Text First Line: Atalanta ran swift course ATALANTA RAN SWIFT COURSE Last Line: Bend and fall from my ear Subject(s): Atalanta AUCTOUR First Line: Said man of hate, un lated tribute to good huffer AUTHORITY OF CAPE ANN Last Line: Where dogma does begin again B C'S First Line: The word forms %on the left: you must B C'S II First Line: What we do not know of ourselves B C'S III First Line: News (o the latest) B. ELLERY -- CINVAT BRIDGE -- AER BABE First Line: Who it is who sits BAGATTO First Line: Double, double, twice the face BAILYN SHOWS SHARP RISE Last Line: Likewise a sloop fir the parsones BALLAD FOR AMERICANS First Line: We have no history BARBARA ELLIS, RAMP BARBARA WHIRLWIND BARLEY OR RYE BEAUTY / IS TO LAY HOLD OF LOVE BEGINNINGS (FACTS First Line: Dutche mariner new england coast & transport england to Last Line: Being: april sixteen %forty-two BEING ALTOGETHER LITERAL, & SPECIFIC ... EXPLICIT First Line: Cant first attaccked as such, 1596, count francesco cenci Last Line: Supposed to be %revolutionaries BETWEEN CRUISER & PLATO -- SEA MOUNTAINS AND Last Line: Just where the canaries lie off shore BIG FAT FLY BIGMANS First Line: Arouse yrself, bigmas BIGMANS II First Line: He who saw everything, of him learn, o my land, learn BINNACLE First Line: The binnacle! The %binnacle - the smallest Last Line: And rhumb lines as it moves BIRTH'S OBITUARY Poem Text First Line: Plane's flight your helix, transcontinental blood Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932) BIRTH'S OBITUARY First Line: Plane's flight your helix, transcontinental blood Last Line: The silver chalice of the moon Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932) BK 11 CHAPTER 37 First Line: Beginning at the hill of middle street the city Last Line: Prove to be likewise new BLACK MT. COLLEGE - DAT OL SPHINX - HAS A FEW WORDS First Line: Names names, paul goodman, or we'll have to use you own BLACK MT. COLLEGE HAS A FEW WORDS FOR A VISITOR First Line: Name names, paul goodman BLOW IS CREATION Last Line: Mother earth alone BOAT First Line: Sacred sycamore and the odor of cedar wood (the odor of the buried boat Last Line: The night, very fast BOATS' LIGHTS IN THE DAWN NOW GOING SO SWIFTLY THE Last Line: Interchange of %time BOHLIN 1 First Line: Fr cape sable into the stream in Last Line: Flat as a yacht's BOHLIN 2 First Line: Bohlin %hove to, once Last Line: Where his vessel was moored BONA DEA (ATHENA Last Line: Wherever they do go BORNE DOWN BY THE INABILITY TO LIFT THE HEAVINESS BOTTLED UP FOR DAYS, MOSTLY Last Line: Reason hath -- and art her beauty god the truth BOTTOM / BACKWARD Last Line: I stand on main street like the diorite %stone BRANG THAT THING OUT Last Line: Survives in the salt BRIDE First Line: The bride leaves her father's house Subject(s): Brides BUFFALO ODE First Line: As sir saltonstall ran over BURIAL GROUDN First Line: The slug and the rat posses the dead BUSINESS First Line: So much slipping by BY CURE OF - SULFA First Line: See where, gathered, the wharves BY CURE OF – SULFA Poem Text First Line: See where, gathered, the wharves Last Line: Father, son & sardine sandwich / of gloucester! Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Family Life CANTO ONE HUNDRED AND ONE First Line: The earth is for the living or CAPRICORN First Line: Capricorn of mountain thirst CAPT CHRISTOPHER LEVETT (OF YORK) First Line: Levett is a measure Last Line: Is the cry of a coat of wonder CARRYING WATER TO THE YOUTH ... First Line: Carrying water to the bear CASHES First Line: I tell you it's cruel. There was the rattler, pitchpoled Last Line: Her name was bearse CAUSE, THE CAUSE First Line: It is the cause the cause, still, it is (and she, still Last Line: Life from its own ending CELESTIAL EVENING, OCTOBER 1967 First Line: Advanced out toward the external from Last Line: Hear all, the new moon new in all %the ancient sky CHAIN OF MEMORY IS RESURRECTION Last Line: The soul %is an onslaught CHRISTMAS First Line: Dirty christmas %which origen CHRONICLES First Line: As zeus sent hermes Last Line: Close to the shore CINOS First Line: Down, throw down his like to eat CIVIC DIASTER First Line: There's a peach tree growing at last Last Line: And the bull was it he is %flanking???) CIVIL WAR First Line: Or casptain philip sheridan CLOUDS First Line: Out the same picture window the pine bow COAST GOES FROM HURRIAN HAZZI TO TYRE Last Line: Home to the shore COILED, / THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM Last Line: In his eye COLE'S ISLAND Poem Text First Line: I met death - he was a sportsman - on cole's Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COLE'S ISLAND First Line: I met death -- he was a sportsman -- on cole's Last Line: Account I can give, of the encounter Subject(s): Death; Islands COLLECTED POEMS OF First Line: Like lines of verse redburn COLOR IS IMAGE COMMON PLACE First Line: The full moon, as she tipped the hill, rising COMPANY OF MEN First Line: Both, the company of men COMPLEYNT BLOSSOMS APRIL TO JULY First Line: The smallest flower %bluet most CONCERNING EXAGGERATION, OR HOW, PROPERLY, TO HEAP UP CONDITION OF THE LIGHT FROM THE SUN First Line: On ground level Last Line: The throne the kingdom the power CONNECTION First Line: The trouble is there's Last Line: Because there is a commotion CONQUEROR First Line: Gulls on the grass %and the odor of live worms%and worms dead on the walk CONQUEROR First Line: I met a worm Last Line: He died CONSTANCE, THIS DAY First Line: As swift and dying as the forms of flame CONTRACT ENTERED INTO BY Last Line: Signed himself b. Ellery dog town CONVERSATION GALANTE First Line: She dreamt of a lady in light green Last Line: Was as ready %as flesh %as fire %for the world CORMORANT / AND THE SPINDLE Last Line: Which marks black rock CORNELY First Line: The legend %this saint's arrival Last Line: Primeval glaciers, line the shores COW OF DOGTOWN First Line: Shaler says Last Line: Nut is in the world CROMLECH' OF COURSE IT IS Last Line: A place of %ridge CROSS-LEGGED, THE SPIDER AND THE WEB First Line: With this body worship her Last Line: You do know you do know CROWN OF NAILS First Line: The nail of the cross Last Line: Before the past and the dream's amaze CRY PAIN, & THE DOGS OF YRSELF DEVOUR CUT First Line: March 13, 1638/9 %to view, whether it may not be Last Line: Toll, for 21 years CUT CREEK,' THE RIVER IS, WM SAVILLE'S CUT CREEK,' THE RIVER IS, WM SAVILLE'S Last Line: Plan' of the harbor 1606 Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Harbors CYPRUS Poem Text First Line: Cyprus / the strangled Last Line: Malta: the fat lady Subject(s): Migration CYPRUS / THE STRANGLED CYPRUS / THE STRANGLED Last Line: Malta: fat lady %spain Subject(s): Crete; Cyprus; Malta; Rhodes (island); Spain DA BOYG First Line: It ain't a woman DANCE, OF THE GRIZZLY BEAR First Line: Red man told me, your father DAY SONG First Line: Beside her, she a limpid brook, I took DAY SONG, THE DAY AFTER First Line: Beside herself (and me, too, so help me), & she Last Line: What is it that they call the deep stuff? -- %still waterz DAY'S BEGINNINGS First Line: Gulls, on the grass, first on which they never are except Last Line: Out with wash: the day's then well-%begun Subject(s): Morning DAY, OF A YEAR First Line: Walkin' 'roun %goin' along down DE BONO First Line: Beauty, sd the bearded man DE LOS CANTARES First Line: Set over orontes DEATH IS THE MOTHER BINDING US TO OUR END Last Line: A hill of rocks, 18-%22 DEATH OF CHARLES OLSON First Line: She hove down Last Line: Who are of this make Subject(s): Fathers DEATH OF EUROPE (A FUNERAL POEM FOR RAINER M. GERHARDT) First Line: Rainer %the man who was about to celebrate his 52nd birthday Last Line: Let us who live %try DECEMBER 18TH First Line: And the rosy red is gone, the Last Line: Is now indistinquishable from %the usa DECEMBER 22ND First Line: The sea %is right up against the skin of the shore with a tide Last Line: Come so far Subject(s): Sea DECEMBER, 1960 First Line: A coast %is not the same Last Line: (1690-1776) who m. Mary harraden in 1719 DESCARTES SOLDIER Last Line: The sun from burning %their necks DIADEM OF THE DOG Last Line: Rattles again DIARIES OF DEATH First Line: 1938: at 5 in the morning I vomited on the grass in front of my house DIRECT DOWNWARD PATH DISCRETE GLOSS First Line: The tide, the number 9 and creation DISPOSITION First Line: All does draw back DISTANCES Last Line: Be carried across the gorge %col j g tottin's report 1833 DISTANCES First Line: So the distances are galatea Last Line: I wake you %stone. Love this man DOGTOWN -- ANN / ROBINSON DAVIS Last Line: Margaret -- josselyn DOGTOWN THE DOG TOWN Last Line: City: metro-%polis DOGWOOD COMES OUT YELLOW DOUBLE, DOUBLE, ROOT AND BRANCH DRAGON-FLY First Line: Noon. The tall trees uphold the sky DRAMATIS PERSONAE First Line: Live's on it %love's on it DRUM WORLD First Line: In particular one man DRY ODE First Line: It pusheth us out before it, out, and to the side DURA First Line: To come to the look in the sacrificer's eyes DYLAN THOMAS, AND NOW MATTHEW MEAD ... 'TO EDWARD THOMAS' First Line: I thought of alun lewis EACH NIGHT IS NO LOSS, IT IS A DAILY ECLIPSE Last Line: Any thing, left foot lifted -- gaja %-- delight EARTH WITH A CITY IN HER HAIR Last Line: Entangled of trees EASTER First Line: Holy saturday night ECHIDNA IS THE BITE Last Line: Is endlessly %poised EGO SCRIPTOR First Line: Form love arising ENCOUNTER First Line: Nauset billerica - to get the fid in END OF THE WORLD / IS THE TURN-ABOUT ENNISCORTHY SUITE First Line: Atop the down pasture ENTHUSIASM First Line: Lane painted true color, and drew ENYALION OF / BROWN EARTH Last Line: Krk -- krk -- krk EPIGON First Line: In whose heart it EPIGRAPH TO CALL ME ISHMAEL First Line: O fahter, fahter ESSAY ON QUEEN TIY First Line: Between queen tiy (consort of amenophis iii, who reigned 1417-1379 b.C.) Last Line: Plus hell herself with it ahead of the wave %a tsunami Subject(s): Tiy, Queen Of Egypt EVE AND LILITH AND ADAM AND PIE First Line: Couples couples %in the bars EVERY MAN HIS OWN MATADOR; ... ANY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY First Line: One wants to say to them: even florida, if they'd have just left even florida EVIDENT PRESENCE OF ROCK-TUMBLE Last Line: Shapes of spruce & bayberry garden EVIL: 1 First Line: For a man to come out of the sea, they EVIL: 2 First Line: He said, he feeds EVIL: 3 First Line: Nothing is more boring EVIL: 4 First Line: I am empty. I will be EXAMPLES - FOR RICHARD BRIDGEMAN First Line: Re-entry, without pillow, dear and the pieces Last Line: Into so many violet river-bottoms EXISTED / 3000 BC? Last Line: Great gods' %meaning? EYE First Line: Hopping as they are feeding now it is raining FABLE FOR SLUMBER Poem Text First Line: An animal dwelt Last Line: An animal dwelt Subject(s): Animals; Children FABLE FOR SLUMBER First Line: An animal dwelt FATHER SKY - MOTHER EARTH -- FROM MY OWN POINT OF VIEW First Line: Chomplain -- hippopotami Last Line: The eye of the apex of the bowl of the %sky FATHERS First Line: To wed good blood to bad blood to alleviate FEAST First Line: Sacred sycamore and the odor Last Line: Than the day (the night %very fast FEATHERED BIRD OF THE HARBOR OF GLOUCESTER First Line: He was here, 1817 august 23rd Last Line: Rounded like a dog's Subject(s): Birds FEBRUARY 10, ONE YEAR TOO LATE First Line: To move time back to where it was before I blundered FEBRUARY 3RD 1966. HIGH TIDE. 10.6 FEET. 8:43 AM First Line: Look at ten pound island all white Last Line: A cake of ice Subject(s): Ships And Shipping FEBRUARY, 1968 First Line: & - 'transit' of FERRINI - I First Line: Into the pool at 5 am to freshen FIRE IS Poem Text Last Line: Cockleshell of, / cockleheart Subject(s): Fire; Man-woman Relationships FIRE IS FIRE IT BACK INTO THE CONTINENT Last Line: The free association of gloucester persons FIRST OF MORNING WAS ALWAYS OVER THERE Last Line: American-chinese millenniium to live in FISH IS THE FLOWER OF WATER First Line: You who follow henry thoreau FLOWER GROWS / FROM THE ROOTS FLOWER OF THE UNDERWORLD First Line: To build out of sound the walls of the city Last Line: Shall be made known FOLLOWED HIS SOW TO APPLES Last Line: On the road up dogtown in the area of the lower road FOOL First Line: His number is zero, or twenty-one FOR 'MOIRA' First Line: To hell with, like Last Line: The ever-rutting animal hateful %to isis FOR A LADY OF WHOM I SPEAK First Line: Who walks on white feet turned FOR A MAN GONE TO STUTTGART WHO LEFT AN AUTOMOBILE BEHIND First Line: The callacanthus %out again (the golden fury seen FOR A.K., ENNISCORTHY, KEENE, VIRGINIA First Line: The trees john coles planted FOR CY TWOMBLY FACED WITH HIS FIRST CHICAGO & N.Y. SHOWS First Line: Ashurbanipal. Or the stern-view FOR JOE SMALL POTATOES FOR K. First Line: Sex the sword. If not so armed FOR MAC HAMMOND First Line: Parallelism therefore is in fact black stone to footstool of FOR MY FRIEND First Line: Drum upon the table FOR PV HIMSELF ALONE AND GOD BLESS HIM First Line: He sd he wore it FOR ROBT DUNCAN, WHO UNDERSTANDS WHAT'S GOING ON Poem Text First Line: To go up & around gravel hill the road goes se to Subject(s): Duncan, Robert (1919-1988) FOR ROBT DUNCAN, WHO UNDERSTANDS WHAT'S GOING ON First Line: To go up & around gravel hill the road goes se to Last Line: Looking thing than herrings Subject(s): Duncan, Robert (1919-1988) FOR SAPPHO, BACK First Line: With a dry eye, she Last Line: A dancer going off FOR THE CHILDREN, IN THE NOVEL, MR. HELLMEN First Line: Sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday FRIDAY, GOOD FRIDAY FRIEND First Line: He was a man made a bank Last Line: His own small change. The interest %is all his FROM THE INCA First Line: The mighty man and the mother-egg FRONTLET First Line: Into the light Last Line: On the bull's horns FULL MOON [STARING OUT WINDOW, 5:30 AM MARCH 4TH Last Line: 5:30 am hungry for everything FURTHER COMPLETION OF PLAT First Line: Lt james davis 14 acres 1717 and to share 4 Last Line: Deacon joseph winslow, who bought from his father-in-law %day, in 1724 FURTHER COMPLETION OF PLAY (BEFORE THEY DROWN DOGTOWN WITH A RESERVOIR First Line: Lower road, kinnicum, before 1717, joseph ingersoll and bryant houses above him Last Line: When b. Ellery %etc FUTURE / OPEN THE BEYOND GATE IS PROUTI First Line: A fountain -- from four blocks away -- can look like ice Last Line: Flesh, too, can die away -- from distance, coming in GEE, WHAT I CALL THE UPPER ROAD WAS THE WAY Last Line: Leads from the town to smallmans now dwelling house GEORGE DECKER; A FISHERMAN Last Line: In the 2nd %bc GLEEMAN WHO FLATTERED YOU First Line: As tomorrow as soon as it is day Last Line: The whole ocean roof to rest upon your chin GLOSS First Line: These days %only the telephone men are spurred GLYPHS First Line: Like a race, the negro boy said GO / MAKE A BRIDGE GOING FROM BATTLE TO BATTLE First Line: The earth lay golden green GOING RIGHT OUT OF THE CENTURY First Line: I, john watts, via Last Line: I herein testify GOLDEN VENETIAN LIGHT FROM BACK OF AGAMENTICUS HEIGHT FALLING ... First Line: I believe in what the arabs by Last Line: From the air itself GONFALON RAISED TONIGHT First Line: I don't know GOT ME HOME, THE LIGHT Last Line: North by the pole and %west GOT ME HOME, THE LIGHT SNOW GIVES THE AIR, FALLING Poem Text First Line: How my own hills Last Line: North by the pole and / west Subject(s): Home GRAIN OF DECEMBER First Line: The ordered %coming and going GRANDFATHER-FATHER POEM First Line: Rolled in the grass GREAT DESCENDING LIGHT OF DAY Last Line: View of herself GREAT WASHING -- ROCK RENEW ONE'S FAITH IN THE FATHERS -- I WAS BORN Last Line: Their own five-way apportionment of what they had had from their father GREEN MAN First Line: Go fool, and hatch of the air GREETING TO A LORD HIGH CANADIAN LAWYER'S WIFE First Line: I'd wash her ass GRINNING MONSTER OUT SIDE THE SYSTEM GROANER SHAKES LOUDER THE WHISTLING BUOY LOUDER WHAT ROUSES Last Line: Of my blood at a later date GULF OF MAINE First Line: Altham says Last Line: And mostly well-dressed persons %frequent it GYLFAGINNING VI First Line: A cow audumla Last Line: Burr (or borr) is the father of odin HATE First Line: Hate any least millimeter HAVE THEM NAKED INSTEAD First Line: Wageearner verses %woman, who prostrates HAVELOCK ELIS, SELS. HAVING DESCRIED THE NATION Last Line: In gloom on watch-house point HAVING DEVELOPED THE DIFFERENCES, THAT ABRAHAM ROBINSON, TO TAKE HIM Last Line: Moon -- the trumpline on her forehead holds her so HE / IN THE DARK STALL HE CAME Last Line: Enyalious HE IS THE DEVIL HE TREADS ON EDGES OF BEING WHERE THE DROP HE WHO WALKS WITH HIS HOUSE ON Last Line: With his house on his head HE, WHO, IN HIS ABANDONED INFANCY, SPOKE TO JESUS ... First Line: Crossed-over dreams, or infertile HEAR MY PRAYER MY FATHER HEART IS A CLOCK Last Line: In creation, when it is %full HEAVEN AS SKY IS MADE OF STONE (DIORITE - EX- Last Line: Is made of grout HECTOR-BODY Last Line: Got home again HELP ME, VENUS, YOU WHO LED ME ON First Line: If you would guess, fond man, the secret HEPIT-NAGA-ATOSIS First Line: Entwined %throughout Last Line: Discovered in birds, fishes, serpents and plants, london %1672 HER DREAM, HALF REMEMBERED First Line: There, quick, a crowd was on me. Jugglers, giants HER HEADLAND Last Line: A bird or town kr-ku HER SKIN / COVERED ME HER STERN LIKE A BOX THE Last Line: Of the full north atlantic its-%self? HERE I AM, NAKED HERE IN THE FORT MY HEART DOTH Last Line: Into the diagram HEREB I AM, NAKED Poem Text Last Line: Of the fire Subject(s): Self HIS HEALTH, HIS POETRY, HIS LOVE ALL IN ONE First Line: The green glow of glaowceastre now that Last Line: The woman who is loved poem Subject(s): Love HIS HOUSE / IN THE BRANCHES HISTORY / OF EARTH. AND OF Last Line: Sewing & binding %each seam Subject(s): Truth HISTORY IS THE MEMORY OF TIME First Line: 1622 to 1626 was the fish rush Last Line: His dried fish Subject(s): History HOME', TO THE SHORE Last Line: The sea-shore HOMO ANTHROPOS Last Line: And poseidon (potidan %[theriun] HOTEL STEINPLATZ, BERLIN, DECEMBER 25 (1966) First Line: Snow %coming %to my window, going up Last Line: The tree itself alone -- ah now no snow at all Subject(s): Berlin, Germany HOUR OF EVENING -- SUPPER HOUR, FOR MY NEIGHBORS Last Line: As our ancestors were %so borne HOUSE First Line: The land outside, and the nights is the enemy's HOW IT WAS JOSEPH ALTSCHULER BROUGHT US UP TO BE First Line: Covered with %feathers. Or to be altogether archaic, one hercassian boar's Last Line: A twig. Break %their necks HOW ONE FEELS ABOUT IT WHEN IT GOES GOOD First Line: Swing out sweet bells HOW THINGS CHANGE First Line: I came back into my own house HUSTINGS First Line: The future sucks %all forward, the past Last Line: We shall all eat - all is here HUSTINGS First Line: Under the eyes Subject(s): Elections; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) HYMN TO PROSERPINE First Line: Each red seed bursts HYMN TO THE WORD First Line: Cock and cunt I AM SO SMALL YOU CAN HARLDY SEE ME I AM THE GOLD MACHINE AND NOW I HAVE TRENCHED OUT, SMEARED, OCCUPIED Last Line: And had covered this place too I BELIEVE IN GOD Last Line: Hanging on it I BELIEVE IN RELIGION NOT MAGIC OR SCIENCE I BELIEVE IN SOCIETY Poem Text Last Line: As religious both man and society as religious Subject(s): Religion; Society I BELIEVE IN RELIGION NOT MAGIC OR SCIENCE I BELIEVE IN SOCIETY Last Line: As religious both man and society as religious Subject(s): Religion I BELIEVE IN YOU I HAD HAD / A BEETLE I HANG ON BY I HAVE BEEN AN ABILITY -- A MACHINE -- UP TO Last Line: Rising shore %forever amen I JUST PASSED / A SWOONY TIME I LIVE UNDERNEATH Last Line: Of another kind of nation I LOOKED UP Last Line: The wobbling %ring I LOOKED UP AND SAW Last Line: In all parts, under %and over I MEAN, NO First Line: By the eleven I MET MY ANGEL LAST NIGHT I SAW, FROM UNDER HIM I SET OUT NOW: Last Line: In a box upon the sea I STAND UP ON YOU, FORT PLACE I SWUNG OUT, AT 8 OR 10 Last Line: In the 3rd floor bedroom %of the I TOLD THE WOMAN Last Line: With the tide all out I WAS BOLD, I HAD COURAGE, THE TIDE TONIGHT Last Line: Anywhere from night to cate or from the bosporus to old [landwards?] %samarakand I WAS STRETCHED OUT ON THE EARTH I WEEP, FOUNTAIN OF JAZER First Line: When there were no depths I'M GOING TO HATE LEAVINH THIS EARTHLY PARADISE First Line: This alembic of the strongest (when Last Line: 3 o'clock in the morning I'M WITH YOU First Line: At 10 o'clock haydon I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU First Line: By ear, he sd Last Line: The next %second I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU First Line: Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood Last Line: Than that which you %can do Subject(s): Birds; Gloucester, Massachusetts I, MENICUS, PUPIL OF THE MASTER Poem Text First Line: The dross of verse, rhyme! Last Line: Who laid down such rails Variant Title(s): I, Mencius, Pupil Of Them Master Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) I, MENICUS, PUPIL OF THE MASTER First Line: The dross of verse, rhyme! Last Line: We do not see %ballads %other than our own Variant Title(s): I, Mencius, Pupil Of Them Maste Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) IDLE IDYLL First Line: Meet me, miss (a white daisy) IF THE DEATHS DO NOT STOP WE'LL HAVE NO EARTH OR YEARS LEFT First Line: Has march now been added so I have to live a 2nd month of fear & hell each year Last Line: Then hang god damn creation we ourselves as he %desires IGOR STRAVINSKY; AN HOMAGE Poem Text First Line: On the edge of woods Subject(s): Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) IGOR STRAVINSKY; AN HOMAGE First Line: On the edge of woods Last Line: A cello rubs itself against a tree Subject(s): Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) IMBUED / WITH THE LIGHT Last Line: The air %of heaven IN AN AUTOMOTIVE STORE First Line: Which is like a stock room anyway Last Line: And bore him %out the door IN CELEBRATION OF MITOS IN COLD HELL, IN THICKET Last Line: As any words, or wagon, %can be made IN ONE AGE OR OTHER IN THE FACE OF A CHINESE VIEW OF THE CITY First Line: On what grounds shall we criticize the city manager? Last Line: What had he better be? IN THE HARBOR Last Line: Nun 10 can 11 IN THE HILLS SOUTH OF CAPERNAUM, PORT First Line: As salt, keep your savour IN THE INTERLEAVED ALMANACKS FOR 1646 AND 1647 OF DANFORTH First Line: 1616, august 1. The great pears ripe Last Line: 1616, july 20. Apricocks ripe IN WIRO LANGUAGE Last Line: Of a 'lost' son greater than %zeus the father INADEQUATE ORDERLY SIMPLIFICATION ... ARBITRARY CONSTANTS First Line: If you will sit in the chair of the flower it will bear you INCUNABULA, 1958 First Line: Naked, but with my boots on %my son INDIAN TRINITY AND MY SON AN ETCHIMIN INTENDED ANGLE OF VISION First Line: Hammond's castle %da allure of german INTENDED ANGLE OF VISION IS FROM MY KITCHEN First Line: The west pink %hammond's castle INTO THE HILL WENT INTO Last Line: The mountain INTO THE STREAM OR ENTRANCE TO THE INNER HARBOR, GLOUCESTER Poem Text Last Line: At the place where duchess sloo drained in Subject(s): Wit & Umor INTO THE STREAM OR ENTRANCE TO THE INNER HARBOR, GLOUCESTER Last Line: At the place where dutches sloo drained in Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts IS BLACK First Line: The mother the negro and the englishman ISLAND, THE RIVER, THE SHORE Last Line: Falls or emerges as the rain on her or the sun ISSUE, MOOD First Line: Still go funny, in the face of him ISSUES FROM THE HAND OF GOD First Line: I am too f .. G innocent to be gay, he roared. Let there be born IT IS A NATION OF NOTHING BUT POETRY Last Line: Your clothes will fall %as you do IT ISN'T MY WORD BUT MY MOTHER'S IT SAYS THE AMITIE SAILED Last Line: Mean, 1626, vir-ginia? IT'S GOT TO THIS IT'S NOT / THE EROTIC IT'S SPRING AGAIN! First Line: It is not spring. The furnace JAS JARGON First Line: Like a man on a stick on a sidewalk being peddled by a low pitchman JIM BRIDGER FIRST WHITE MAN JL 17 1961 First Line: As john burke Last Line: Are not to be wasted %'okloloidoros JOHN BURKE First Line: John burke did not rise Last Line: Being fosterwise of %charley-once-boy %insides JOHN WATTS TOOK Last Line: 10 lb island JUNE 6TH, 1963 First Line: The head and chariot Last Line: Urging and creating JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966 First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon; Seagulls JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966 First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Last Line: As much condition as the purchase of my soul by love as they Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon JUST INSIDE THE VIGIL OF CHRISTMAS First Line: Swinging %the colored of afghan JUST TO HAVE HER BODY IN MY MIND (TO OBJECTIFY THE POSSIBILITY, THE Last Line: Pomegranate of creation JW (FROM THE DANELAW) SAYS Last Line: On the widest possible %ground K First Line: Take, then, my answer KAR-CHA-RO-DONTA First Line: Cast them inot the heaving sea from the continent KENT CIRCLE SONG First Line: At my aunt vandla's Last Line: And into the oven with her KEY WEST First Line: Just the kind of guy who KIN First Line: Measure by your footsteps, sd the voice, the days KING OF THE WOOD KING OF THE DEAD First Line: Die in the grain KING'S MOUNTAIN First Line: Major patrick ferguson, %the night before KINGFISHERS First Line: What does not change/is the will to change Last Line: I hunt among stones Subject(s): Kingfishers KNOWING ALL WAYS, INCLUDING THE TRANSPOSITION OF CONTINENTS First Line: I have seen enough: ugliness LA CHUTE First Line: My drum, hollowed out thru the thin silt Last Line: Where they are, where my lute and drum have fallen Subject(s): Transience LA CUUTE II First Line: If you would go down to the dead LA CUUTE III First Line: The mother, the pleasure. To return is LA PREFACE First Line: The dead in via %in via nuova Last Line: The babe %the howling babe LA TORRE First Line: The tower is broken, the house Last Line: It will take new stone, new tufa, to finish off this rising tower LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE CENTER RING! First Line: The legs of lalage toss, and toss, and toss Last Line: Across le cirque, le reve de l'homme LADY MIMOSA! DELIVER US LALAGE First Line: Haie! Lalage! %the legs of (haie!) Last Line: The legs of (sparagmos!) %lalage! LALAGE! First Line: The legs of lalage toss, and toss, and toss Last Line: Sing: lalage! Lalage! The legs of lalage! LAMP First Line: You can hurry the pictures toward you but Last Line: The beam hanging from LAND AS HAITHUBU First Line: How the land stands somehow deserted Last Line: Which is not true otherwise each day LAND'S END Last Line: And then LAND'S EYE-VIEW OF GLOUCESTER First Line: 1833 14 october 443 vessels at anchor in the harbor besides ... Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts LANDSCAPE, WITHOUT COLOR First Line: The train carries me swiftly by, yet LAP Last Line: If they wanted to %where to dig LAST MAN EXCEPT CONCEIVABLY Last Line: And part of the fighting force at casco -- or where portalnd %later was LATER NOTE ON LETTER #15 First Line: In english the poetics become meubles Last Line: Are yet to be found out LATER TYRIAN BUSINESS First Line: From %the diadem Last Line: The salivarating %dog LAUGHING ONES First Line: They are the light-hearted races LAW Poem Text First Line: Blackstone is gone Last Line: Man shall have new law Subject(s): Law & Lawyers LAW First Line: Blackstone is gone LEADER First Line: They slew him, the women LEARNED MAN' SD STRABO (MEANING PYTHEUS Last Line: Capacity / tanais! Itself LEFT HAND IS THE CALYX OF THE FLOWER Last Line: As though it were the soul itself, the soul's %limb LETTER #29 (FROM THE MAXIMUS POEMS): 1 First Line: Who walked, rio tampico to %norumbega (cabeza %less. Hakluyt Last Line: Without departing from %the capability LETTER #29 (FROM THE MAXIMUS POEMS): 2 First Line: The privy council %heard him %as he sat: of barking Last Line: Who speak of a white man healed %the sick LETTER #29 (FROM THE MAXIMUS POEMS): 3 First Line: Where the english boy went %buffalo %had, where the incidence of cities Last Line: And heaved the body %into %the glen LETTER #29 (FROM THE MAXIMUS POEMS): 4 Last Line: They took him %seriously %(no enlargement) LETTER #29 (FROM THE MAXIMUS POEMS): II First Line: Thus boston: 'the top and head' %he had it, men Last Line: We will it so %and so it is %past all accident LETTER FOR MELVILLE 1951 First Line: My dear - : %I do thank you, that we hear from you, but the LETTER, MAY 2, 1959 First Line: 125 paces grove street Last Line: Rocky neck LETTER, ON FISHING GROUNDS [OF, THE GULF OF MAINE] BY WALTER H. RICH First Line: If the marine features Last Line: Copy of walter h. Rich, to do this Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen LI PO Poem Text First Line: The fire makes noises like snow on wet panes Last Line: The fire is less naster of the cold night than the snow Subject(s): Fire; Snow LI PO First Line: The fire makes noises like snow on wet panes LIBRARIAN First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester Last Line: Diner? Who is %frank moore? LICKED MAN (AS SUCH) OUT OF THE ICE Last Line: Was the giant ----- LIE OF 10, OR THE CONCEPT OF ZERO First Line: Decade only meaningful (decimal death. And decade only LIGHT SIGNALS & MASS POINTS Last Line: Side on side LIKE A FOLDOUT LIKE MOUNTAINS. STAGE HEAD & TABLET ROCK FLOATED UP Last Line: Toward the river pulling as the sun does the fabrick apart %sonnetina LIKE MR. PESTER ACKNOWLEDGED HIS SINFULNESS IN BEING Last Line: Weare left the house at eight o'clock. This was about nov. 2 LION UPON THE FLOOR First Line: Begin a song LITURGICAL / EIGHTH DAY LIVING HAND, NOW WARM, NOW CAPABLE Last Line: Of earnest grasping LONG DISTANCE First Line: Pink tits, or grace of white thighs LORDLY AND ISOLATE SATYRS - LOOK AT THEM COME IN Last Line: They go, and the day LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944 Poem Text First Line: Black at that depth Variant Title(s): Pacific Lament Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Battles; World War Ii; Naval Warfare; Second World War LOST ABOARD U.S.S. 'GROWLER'; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HICKEY, 1944 First Line: Black at that depth Last Line: Toss no morem sib %sleep Variant Title(s): Pacific Lamen Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Battles; World War Ii LOST FROM THE LOSS OF HER DRAGGER HEISTED Last Line: Fills up the ocean to the %top LOVE First Line: Down %to my soul LOVE I First Line: For that it is love and covers us LOVE IS THE TALK LOVE OF ANAT, I First Line: Anat and acbat LOVERS First Line: She is frank he is tender LOWER FIELD - ENNISCORTHY First Line: The sheep like soldiers LUSTRUM FOR YOU, E.P. First Line: So, pound, you have found the gallows tree MAIN STREET / IS DESERTED, THE HILLS Last Line: Among the edges %of the plagioclase MAN-WITH-THE-HOUSE-ON-HIS-HEAD CARRYING Last Line: Bang their platters MAREOCEANUM First Line: Forming a lake just outside Last Line: Far far above -- gondwanaland MARRY THE MARROW First Line: Marrow unvisited, %and then, visited MAST First Line: I had to unship the mast or we would have been over, & in,, to MATHEMATICAL SECRET, AND THE APRON First Line: Weights, the secret %of gravity: when did vehere MAVRODAPHNE First Line: White horse he was to her black foal Last Line: Became a mother - %what of the three? MAXIMUS First Line: As of why thinking of why such questions as security, and the great white Last Line: Primitive (buttocks the prior etc MAXIMUS FURTHER ON (DECEMBER 28TH 1959) First Line: Fisherman's field's rocks with gen douglas lying Last Line: The impossible rock perseus the husband not me MAXIMUS LETTER # WHATEVER First Line: Chockablock -- once a man was traveling through the woods, and Last Line: To compound until the beast rises from the sea MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER First Line: Only my written word Last Line: Later: myself (like my father, in the picture) a shadow %on the rock MAXIMUS SONG First Line: Thronged %to the seashore Last Line: Walk into %the water MAXIMUS TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 14 First Line: On john hawkins / on the puzzle Last Line: In the narrow seas MAXIMUS TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 15 First Line: It goes to show you. It was not the 'eppie sawyer.' it was the ship 'putnam' Last Line: Should getta %job MAXIMUS TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 27 (WITHHELD) First Line: I come back to the geography of it Last Line: Polis %is this MAXIMUS TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 27 [WITHHELD] Poem Text First Line: I come back to the geography of it Subject(s): Relationships MAXIMUS, 2 Recitation by Author First Line: Wrote my first poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MAXIMUS, AT THE HARBOR First Line: Okeanos rages, tears rocks back in his path Last Line: The great ocean is angry. It wants the perfect child MAXIMUS, AT TYRE AND AT BOSTON First Line: Honor, or color, point Last Line: As we find out we are MAXIMUS, FROM DOGTOWN - 1 First Line: The sea was born of the earth without sweet union of love hesiod says Last Line: Uncover and her part %take him in MAXIMUS, FROM DOGTOWN - 2 First Line: The sea - turn yr back on Last Line: Is the black gold flower MAXIMUS, FROM DOGTOWN - IV] First Line: A century or so before 2000 Last Line: Thus %march MAXIMUS, IN GLOUCESTER SUNDAY LXV First Line: Osmund dutch, and john gallop, mariners, their wages Last Line: Surrounding the earth MAXIMUS, IN GLOUCESTER SUNDAY, LXV Poem Text First Line: Osmund dutch, and john gallop, mariners, their wages Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails MAXIMUS, LETTER #41 [BROKEN OFF] First Line: With a leap (she said it was an arabesque) Last Line: Had just begun again. Gondwana MAXIMUS, LETTER 10 First Line: On john white / on cod, ling, and poor-john Last Line: Of my countree MAXIMUS, LETTER 16 First Line: Not to crowd you. But what do we have Last Line: And no discussion MAXIMUS, LETTER 2 Poem Text First Line: . . . . . Tell you? Ha! Who Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Work; Workers; Ocean MAXIMUS, LETTER 22 First Line: Trouble %with the car. And for a buck Last Line: To what a car %will do Subject(s): Automobiles MAXIMUS, LETTER 23 First Line: The facts are Last Line: Getting in to, the community as, chambers of commerce, or theocracy; %or city manager MAXIMUS, LETTER 3 First Line: Tansy buttons, tansy Last Line: Of men and girls MAXIMUS, LETTER 5 First Line: (as, in summer, a newspaper, now, in spring, a magazine Last Line: Will publish you MAXIMUS, LETTER 6 First Line: Polis is Last Line: To be looked out of MAXIMUS, LETTER 7 Recitation by Author First Line: (marsden hartley's Subject(s): Hartley, Marsden (1877-1943) MAXIMUS, LETTER 7 First Line: (marsden hartley's Last Line: Refusing woman's flesh Subject(s): Hartley, Marsden (1877-1943) MAXIMUS, LETTER 72 First Line: Of love & hand-holding sweet flowers & drinking Last Line: Where moraine, and the more MAXIMUS, LETTER 9 First Line: I had to clobber him Last Line: Blots out the rattle of %my machine MAXIMUS, MARCH 1961-2 First Line: By the way into the woods Last Line: Show me (exhibit %myself) MAXIMUS, TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 11 First Line: The rock reads Last Line: And rayling lines %for mackerell MAXIMUS, TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 157 First Line: An old indian chief as hant Last Line: Of penobscot bay MAXIMUS, TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 19 (A PASTORAL LETTER) First Line: Relating %to the care of souls Last Line: In all her splendor MAXIMUS, TO GLOUCESTER, SUNDAY, JULY 19 First Line: And they stopped before that bad sculpture of a fisherman Last Line: No difference %when men come back MAXIMUS, TO GLOUCESTER: LETTER 2 First Line: Tell you? Ha! Who Last Line: Some of these men and women MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: I have had to learn the simplest things Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF First Line: I have had to learn the simplest things Last Line: Stretching out %from my feet Subject(s): Sea MAYA AGAINST ITZAS First Line: O sun! With your eye of a great bird MAZDAISM / HAS OVERCOME / THE WORLD MEASURE A VESSEL BLATTING MELKARTH OF TYRE Last Line: The nation MELVILLE'S SENSE OF BLOOMING LATE MEMORIAL DAY FLOWERS MEMORY, MIND, AND WILL MEN ARE ONLY KNOWN IN MEMORY MERCE OF EGYPT Poem Text First Line: I sing the tree is a heron Subject(s): Cunningham, Merce; Dancing & Dancers MERCE OF EGYPT First Line: I sing the tree is a heron Last Line: When the spring comes, and flood, the tassels %rise, as my head Subject(s): Cunningham, Merce; Dancing And Dancers MIGRATION IN FACT (WHICH IS PROBABLY Last Line: Is the rose is the rose is the rose of the world MIND'S NOTICE First Line: The fog blows %by the window MINDANAO: 1 First Line: Where you are deep MINDANAO: 2 First Line: Where you are deep MIRKO, KNOEDLER, 1948 First Line: Elements of clothes, an arm and hand of the head of a MOEBIUS STRIP First Line: Upon a moebius strip Last Line: Each to other, nested eggs %of elements in trance MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH, 1962 First Line: And his nibs crawled around the town Last Line: Of my monuments around the town MOON First Line: The moon is a monstrance Last Line: The moon is the number 18 Subject(s): Moon MOON IS THE MEASURE -- MAN IS THE MEASURE Last Line: While we reflect MOON IS THE NUMBER 18 First Line: Is a monstrance Last Line: And sound is, is, his %conjecture Subject(s): Moon MOONSET, GLOUCESTER, DECEMBER 1, 1957, 1:58 AM First Line: Goodbye red moon Last Line: I can die now I just begun to live MORNING NEWS First Line: O mister eckhart! Calling MOTHER OF THE TIDES (FATHER, SUN) Last Line: In a lather from the air MOTHER-SPIRIT TO FUCK AT NOUMENON, VIERGE Last Line: (a prayer to our lady of good voyage MOTION MOUNTAIN OF NO DIFFERENCE WHICH I Last Line: As a prayer MOVE OVER First Line: Merchants. Of the sea and of finance Last Line: Despite her merchants and her morals MUSE / IS THE 'FATE' OF THE POEM MY APPLE BRANCH MY BELLY / SOUNDS LIKE AN OWL MY CARPENTER'S SON'S SON'S WILL, LT WILLIAM STEVENS, 1701 First Line: A certain priviledged place Last Line: House sawmill barn MY FATHER First Line: My father was my father MY GODDESS First Line: Saw me into the other worlds, gave me the push which MY LOVE IS ALSO / LIKE MY MEMORY IS Last Line: The history of time Subject(s): Memory MY POOR DUMB BODY MY SHORE, MY SOUNDS, MY EARTH, MY PLACE Last Line: Afterwards, in between, and since MY WIFE -- MY CAR -- MY COLOR -- AND MYSELF NAME-DAY NIGHT First Line: What it is to look into a human eye NASTURTIUM / IS STILL MY FLOWER -- BUT I AM A POET Last Line: Nose-gay NATION / IS NOTHING BUT POETRY NERVES ARE STAVES, & WHEN THE TEARS COME THERE IS VOICE First Line: It got to cost $1,000,000 to kill an indian NEW EMPIRE First Line: There was homey, over the cut, homer barrett Last Line: But it was indeed a new %empire Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts NEW ENGLAND MARCH First Line: Annisquam %atlantic NEW POEM First Line: I have a foolishness here which is lamp-like NEWLY DISCOVERED 'HOMERIC' HYMN (FOR JANE HARRISON) First Line: Hail and beware the dead who will talk life until you are blue Last Line: You have your own place to drink. Hail and beware them, when they come Subject(s): Death NIGHT First Line: I waked, and sat out the watch, the night NO First Line: No. The foot of me NORTH, / IN THE ICE, THE BULGAR Last Line: Sibersky slovo NORTHMAN, WHAT OF YOURSELF? First Line: The buoy tosseth in the sea, it tolls NOT A RAT-HOLE, A CAT-HOLE NOT THE INTAGLIO METHOD OR SKATING Last Line: Lady of bon voyage NOT TO PERMIT HIMSELF NOTE ON THE ABOVE First Line: A maximus song Last Line: For a few feet NOTICE FOR ALL AMERICAN MECHANICS First Line: The luminous physicality of all things O JOHN JOSSELYN YOU First Line: On the coast of maine Last Line: Their plantation if they have any O QUADRIGA Last Line: In your place upon the sky O'RYAN - #11 First Line: Say day a person O'RYAN: 1 First Line: Overall, mover of the unnumbered O'RYAN: 10 First Line: He loved a girl O'RYAN: 11 First Line: Letsuzstawayfromparades O'RYAN: 12 First Line: I can't tell a thing O'RYAN: 13 First Line: They were so realistic O'RYAN: 14 First Line: A clowder of cats O'RYAN: 15 First Line: Joe ball %got too tall O'RYAN: 2 First Line: Tell me something, tell me O'RYAN: 3 First Line: I heard they got you O'RYAN: 4 First Line: The story starts. It's O'RYAN: 5 First Line: In other words %there ain't no villian O'RYAN: 6 First Line: Your mother's. Your O'RYAN: 7 First Line: Woman is a man's O'RYAN: 8 First Line: He was all lit up O'RYAN: 9 First Line: It's that way that's all OBIT First Line: The quail, and the wild mountain aster OBJECTS First Line: So venus does hand and glitter is the prepared sky OCEAN First Line: Clay %ganesha Last Line: Goes on forever Subject(s): Sea OCEANIA First Line: The child %of the moment of the mind Last Line: To %sea ODE ON NATIVITY First Line: All cries rise, & the three of us Last Line: Whence all our cries arise OF LADY, OF BEAUTY, OF STREAM First Line: That rising, of the first, you cause OF LOVE First Line: Of love, defunctive music, the turtle-dove OF MATHILDE First Line: The fragrance is %what cannot be put on, is raiment spun Last Line: Without deformation wears %her unseen work OF OLD TIMES, THERE WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL Last Line: Where the snake lived OF THE PARSONSES First Line: I pick out Last Line: Leaving the spring common, thence %nwly etc OF THE UNITED STATES First Line: I'll go and sit down a few minutes with my soul. Hello OFF-UPLAND Last Line: Old norse / algonquin OH! FA-DOO: THE ENORMOUS SUCCESS OF CLERKS OLD PHYSICS RESTORED, OR, NEWTON ON MAN First Line: Man's day, he both knows and knows the day OLDER THAN BYBLOS Last Line: From running back ON ALL SIDES First Line: The cave %wall the cave lion's ON BEMO LEDGE HE FELL Last Line: Of the lucky sea ON FIRST LOOKING OUT THROUGH JUAN DE LA COSA'S EYES First Line: Behaim -- and nothing Last Line: Else than %la verite ON THE EARTH'S EDGE IS ALONE THE WAY TO STAND Last Line: In the great heaven of ocean ON THE EQUATOR EAST OF MY SON ON THE SHORE First Line: Choke cherry blossoms on the back ONE NIGHT MA / LAY WITH PA ONE OF THE BRONZE PLAQUES WHICH DECORATE THESE Last Line: And gorton pew's, mighty mac hammond? ONE WORD AS THE COMPLETE POEM First Line: Dictic ONLY THE RED FOX, ONLY THE CROW First Line: You who come after us OR LINDSAY Last Line: Out of here OSIRIS BOAT WITH SANTY CLAUS AT REST ON IT OTHER THAN First Line: Cold %cold %on the bold OUT OF THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN THE FLOWER Last Line: Grows down, the air %of heaven OUT OVER THE LAND SKOPE VIEW AS FROM ALEXANDER BAKER'S STILL Last Line: Is before the beginning of bodily things OUTER DARKNESS -- INNER SCHOODIC - THE RANGES Last Line: In their own congeries PART OF THE FLOWER OF GLOUCESTER First Line: From the sunsets Last Line: Harbor to your side PART OF THE SERIES ON THE PATHS First Line: On your feet like paws and if a board might squeak PATRIOTISM / IS THE PRESERVED PARK Last Line: Made a pass PAVEMENT PEDENS, WHO RE-WALKED THE TRAILS, HOBBYISTS PELORIA -- THE DOG'S UPPER LIP KEPT CURLING Last Line: It is called here, at this point and point of time %peloria PENTE COST UNDER THE BODY OF THE GULL FLYING DIRECTLY PEOGRAMS First Line: Life is funny PEOPLE WANT DELIVERY Last Line: At the corner of rocky neck avenue PERFUME / OF FLOWERS! A HAW Last Line: Is a scent PERFUME / OF FLOWERS! A QUINCE! Last Line: Is a jonquil PERFUME! First Line: The perfume %of flowers: a plane Last Line: What the heart is, %the sceptre! Subject(s): Men PERSONALITY AND DOURNESS OF WINTER Last Line: To be in and all the east hill is a platform of angles %in the snow PHALAROPES / PILED UP ON THATCHERS Last Line: And 4 a.M PHYSICALLY, I AM HOME. POLISH IT Last Line: The earth glows, in the light %of heaven PICTURE First Line: Exactly what the status Last Line: Returns to le beau port PICTURE First Line: What a traffick amongst limbs and loins PITCHER, HOW PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL First Line: How to live as a Last Line: & like theologians: for example, dante - giotto PLANTATION A BEGINNING First Line: I sit here on a sunday Last Line: To get %gloucester %started PLANTED THE FRUIT SKIN & ALL PO-SY, A PO-SY First Line: Aw, pss, and sing, be POEM 143. THE FESTIVAL ASPECT First Line: The world %has become divided Last Line: (the feet of mximus %in the air POEMLESS RHYMES FOR THE TIMES First Line: Among %fucks %directly %expect the worse POEMS FOR BET: 1 First Line: I love the world, and until Last Line: When I did, in a corpse, %I was born POEMS FOR BET: 10 First Line: Her skin %covered me, let light into me, held Last Line: To our hotel. %bet 2 (friday night %october 9th, %1964 POEMS FOR BET: 2 First Line: My love poem for you on %st joseph's day Last Line: It is: I could just fall into every drop of you POEMS FOR BET: 3: THE POEM YOU ASKED FOR FOR YOU First Line: Until nature is met Last Line: Thereafter %no path POEMS FOR BET: 4: MAXIMUS TO HIMSELF JUNE 1964 First Line: No more, %where the tidal river rushes Last Line: The ownership %solely %mine POEMS FOR BET: 5: THE BIO-MORPHIC MUST GO First Line: Tale quale ipsum est Last Line: The apple-branch %(who was my wife POEMS FOR BET: 6 Last Line: She did not know evil %is true POEMS FOR BET: 7 First Line: Going to bed at night %-reading %trash. And she thought Last Line: Drummond hadley %she didn't %know POEMS FOR BET: 8 First Line: I went full tilt %and then she was killed Last Line: Reading john wieners' %ace of pentacles, friday %october 9th 1964 POEMS FOR BET: 9 First Line: Follow bet %into the colors of her dress Last Line: To the face of god %friday, october %9th nineteen sixty four POIMANDERES: NOW I SEE WHAT WAS UP Last Line: Rills in the march night POST VIRGINAL First Line: F = ci(2) keats: the intensity of object PRAISES First Line: She who was burned more than half her body skipped out of death PRAYER, TO THE LORD, CAST DOWN LIKE A GOOD OLD CATHOLIC Last Line: My great white cadillac driving through dogtown PRESENT IS PROLOGUE, SELS. First Line: My shuft is that I take it the present is prologue, not the past Last Line: All hierarchies, like dualities, are dead ducks PROEM First Line: The algonquins had cleared the land there, champlain Last Line: My father's shoes PROMISE First Line: Who wants action PROPER SOUL / IN THE PROPER BODY PSYCHE First Line: That each object knew the way for psyche PUBLISHED MY OWN SOUL AUGUST MY FATHER'S MONTH Last Line: Was married in winter used an umbrella in the snow Subject(s): Parents PURGATORY BLIND First Line: Between the river and the sea PUT HIM THIS WAY QUAIL Poem Text First Line: When my soul was raging, a flock of birds which whir up Subject(s): Quails QUAIL First Line: When my soul was raging, a flock of birds which whir up Subject(s): Quails QUATRAIN First Line: Do not, at this high time, desert R(2) First Line: Undo time's work RAGES / STRAIN / DOG OF TARARUS Last Line: Over the world -- over the city -- over man RAMP: / TO EAT GOD'S FOOD Last Line: Raw RANGE First Line: What these sounds were RAPHAEL First Line: Last night I heard REAL First Line: The neck of %the cone RECORD First Line: Here we have it -- the goods -- from this harbour Last Line: Capts evans, & edward cribbe RED FISH-OF-BONES Last Line: The white fish %of the bones RED MALLOWS First Line: Red mallows, the language blooming RESISTANCE First Line: This is eternity. This is now. This foreshortened span Last Line: A man, its fragile mortal force its old eternity, resistance RETORT First Line: The notochord is enough RETURN First Line: The dying of the day in the dying of the year RETURN TO THE MAIL-BAG, OR Last Line: Of the son with the father RIGHT AT THE CUT Last Line: He sat RIGHT IN MY EYE RING OF First Line: It was the west wind caught her up, as Last Line: Are born of like %elements Subject(s): Birth RIVER - 1 First Line: Into %in the ford the diorite man obtrudes obadiah bruen's Last Line: That the diorite has cut the granite RIVER - 2 First Line: The diorite Last Line: Engineer. %an engine, her RIVER MAP AND WE'RE DONE First Line: By master saville who, conceivably, from accuracy of his drawing of the fort Last Line: Old hulk - rocky marsh Subject(s): Maps RIVULET OF SOIL ROCKS IN THE SETTLEMENT COVE Last Line: From stacy boulevard on the water %at night ROSY, IT WAS First Line: Come aboard' the old man used to say ROTUNDUM Last Line: Defiance %hill ROUND & A CANON First Line: As, certainly, it is not you who sway RUFUS WOODPECKER VISITED THE PRESIDENT SAID ADAM First Line: The day red like the cardinal SAID MRS TARANTINO Last Line: But that I %do SALMON OF Last Line: Strike into one's previously breathing %system SALT, & MINERALS, OF EARTH RETURN -- ENYALION Last Line: Of the living world SAME DAY, LATER First Line: Contemplating my neolithic Last Line: The place of the parting of the seams of all the earth SANS NAME Poem Text First Line: Called death, in darkness Last Line: A tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide Subject(s): Death SANS NAME First Line: Called death, is darkness SANUNCTHION LIVED Last Line: On flooded marshes? SAVAGES, OR VOYAGES OF SAMYEL DE CHAMPLAIN OF BROUAGE First Line: Riberio %look at this! 1529 Last Line: And his path Subject(s): Champlain, Samuel De (1567-1635) SCREAM TO THE EDITOR First Line: Moan the loos, another SEA / IS AN ARCHEOLOGY SEA SONG First Line: Heave the net SEA'S / BOILING -- THE LAND'S Last Line: Snow and hissing %waters Subject(s): Storms SEQUENTIOR First Line: Smallmans definitely there 1721 [action of committee on Last Line: The petitioners are most of the %seafaring men SEVEN SONGS First Line: Man knows his day, it has SHADOW, TWO First Line: It is still the cause, the cause, even if the method is Last Line: I want the %sounds! SHAG ROCK / BULL'S EYE Last Line: In a south easter SHANG DYNASTY ORACLE BONE 2 SAY First Line: Neat person %make more uproar SHAPE OF WEYMOUTH FOR THERE GLOUCESTER Last Line: Nescio ballotes SHE First Line: You are to me, love, half family half tree SHE WHO HITS AT WILL First Line: With dog and catalpa, panicles SHE WHO MET THE SERPENT IN THE POND THE ADULTERESS Last Line: She had fucked with the king of the pool Subject(s): Unfaithfulness SHE, THUS First Line: The bottom of the air is disturbed as with an undertow SHE-BEAR First Line: O goddess excellently bright SHE-BEAR II First Line: Agree we call the place SHENANDOAH First Line: Event %a reflection SHIPS FOR THE WEST INDIES, OR SOUTHERN VOYAGE Last Line: To water out beyond the sluice at mill river Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts SHORT POSSIBLE POEM TO FOLLOW LONG EXCESSIVE 'VENETIAN JOB' ... First Line: Moon going down [actually only going into cloud or fog, same position of Last Line: Still saturday-sunday night SHUT IN KEPT OFF SIBERIA - ? First Line: Island %(near miletus, & Last Line: The statue into %place SIENA Poem Text First Line: Awkwardness, the grace Last Line: We who are awkward Subject(s): Awkwardness SIENA First Line: Awkwardness, the grace SIGNATURE TO PETITION ON TEN POUND ISLAND ASKED OF ME BY V. FERRINI First Line: John watts took salt Last Line: Fall -- it washes all %away SIGNS First Line: Fog, and orchid sun SIN IS INFERIORITY SING, MISTER, SING First Line: Hills are grey elephants SIT BY THE WINDOW AND REFUSE SIX INCH CHAPTER - IN VERSE First Line: Don't stand out there, man, in all that howllllllll SKY, / OF GLOUCESTER Last Line: Of land and sea SLOWNESSES / WHICH ARE AN Last Line: Story by another man SMALL BIRDS, TO AGREE WITH THE LEAVES, COME IN THE FALL First Line: As in the amusement park they have these streams of water SNOW AT EVENING First Line: In the twilight snow for less than a minute Last Line: Life & its proposed loss SNOW FALLS ETERNALLY DOWN SNOW WHITE WAS ALWAYS WAITING SNOW: 2 First Line: Falling in water there is no end SO GENTLE First Line: So gentle, nobody seems to have paid him much mind SO HELP ME First Line: Yes mam, I'm a SO SASSAFRAS First Line: Europe was just then being drained swept by the pox so sassafras Last Line: Walk 50 miles %nor' nor' west SO THE NORSE / WERE NEUROTIC SOME GOOD NEWS First Line: How small the news was Last Line: From smith -- some good news %better %get after SOME PARTIAL CLOUDINESS WILL FLOW LOCALLY SONG First Line: More than the sennet of the solstice pipe Last Line: And the season %still is cold SONG AND DANCE OF First Line: In the present go Last Line: Who were the conquistadors of my country, the dreamless present SONG OF ULLIKUMMI First Line: Fucked the mountain Last Line: Arunas %the sea SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 1 First Line: Colored pictures Last Line: Even the street-cars %song SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2 First Line: All %wrong Last Line: In shallow graves? SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 3 First Line: This morning of the small snow Last Line: Contrary, go %sing SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 4 First Line: I know a house made of mud & wattles Last Line: And the fish SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 5 First Line: I have seen faces of want Last Line: What any of us %new england SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 6 First Line: You sing, you Last Line: Wants SOUL First Line: Artists and writers SPACE AND TIME THE SALIVA Last Line: Of the dog SPRING SONG FOR CAGLI First Line: There is a boy who walks with a fish STAGE FORT PARK First Line: An ice-plug a wherry where I hid my car a nights a fucking Last Line: Where ground itself is a fucking hole STEVENS SONG First Line: Out of the fire out of the mouth Last Line: Eating the dropped body, the %scavenger STIFFENING, IN THE MASTER FOUNDERS' WILLS First Line: Decsartes, aged 34, date boston's Last Line: What's all this %for STONE AND FLOWER SERIES First Line: I banged it out STORY First Line: It was a place STORY OF AN OLSON, AND BAD THING First Line: Bad thing came in the night, and, this time, ate away part of my STRAVINSKY; AN HOMAGE First Line: On the edge of woods Last Line: Man, and the maiden, both %torn Subject(s): Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) STROD THE WATER'S EDGE & THE Last Line: To have his eggs than a rail does SUN / RIGHT IN MY EYE Last Line: The message I am %gone SUN / UPSIDE DOWN Last Line: Connection to %the dogs SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1966 First Line: Golden life, golden light on western harbor Last Line: And farther to the north than the sun (directly over stage head) SUT LOVINGOOD First Line: Papa cats bread SWEET SALMON Last Line: Of the straightest %sapling SWIMMING THROUGH THE AIR, IN SCHOOLS UPON THE HIGHWAYS Last Line: Surrounding the earth TA METEURA / METEOR THINGS Last Line: Parsonses %field TABLE First Line: I admit, there are people with whom it is not pleasant TAKE THE EARTH IN UNDER A SINGLE REVIEW Last Line: Gloucester as %I go TALL IN THE FORT Last Line: And come true TANTO E AMARA Poem Text First Line: I have heard the dread song I had not heard Last Line: The song of the worms? Subject(s): Songs TANTO E AMARA First Line: I have heard the dread song I had not heard TANTRIST / SAT SAW Last Line: The city hall %tower TELESPHERE First Line: Gather a body to me Last Line: As a bear, out of me TENEMENTY TWILIGHTISH LANDSCAPE TESSERAE First Line: Commissure THANK GOD / I CHOSE A PROTESTANT THANK GOD / I CHOSE A PROTESTANT Last Line: I come from the last walking period of man Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts THAT ISLAND / FLOATING IN THE SEA Last Line: Come on %moeurs de societe THAT THERE WAS A WOMAN IN GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS WHOSE Last Line: From the painted cave of castillo %at biscay THAT'S THE COMBINATION THE OCEAN Last Line: Every automorphism THE BRIDE Poem Text First Line: The bride leaves her father's house Subject(s): Brides THE FEATHERED BIRD OF THE HARBOR OF GLOUCESTER First Line: He was here, 1817 august 23rd Subject(s): Birds THE GRANDFATHER-FATHER POEM Poem Text First Line: Rolled in the grass Subject(s): Grandparents; Fathers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GULF OF MAINE Poem Text First Line: Altham says / they were in a pinance Subject(s): Shipwrecks THE HISTORY / OF EARTH. AND OF THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: The land outside, and the night is gthe enemy's Last Line: The black of water and of night Subject(s): Houses; Night THE HUSTINGS Poem Text First Line: Under the eyes THE INADEQUATE ORDERLY SIMPLIFICATION. BUT THE THREE NATURAL UNITS. AND ONLY ARBITRARY CONSTANTS Poem Text First Line: If you sit in the chair of the flower it will hear you Subject(s): Flowers THE KINGFISHERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What does not change/is the will to change Subject(s): Kingfishers THE LIBRARIAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives THE MOON Poem Text First Line: The moon is a monstrance Subject(s): Moon THE MOON IS THE NUMBER 18 Poem Text First Line: Is a monstrance Subject(s): Moon THE OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Clay / ganesha Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE PERFUME! Poem Text First Line: The perfume / of flowers: a plane Subject(s): Men THE RED FISH-OF-BONES Poem Text THE RING OF Poem Text First Line: It was the west wind caught her up, as Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE SEA'S / BOILING -- THE LAND'S THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 1 Poem Text First Line: Colored pictures Subject(s): Language; City & Town Life; Words; Vocabulary THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2 Poem Text First Line: All / wrong Subject(s): Travel; City & Town Life; Journeys; Trips THE' ALBA First Line: Love requires %talk of itself THERE ARE SOUND, BUT CAN IMMORALISTS THERE ARE SOUNDS THERE ARE SOUNDS, BUT CAN IMMORALISTS THERE IS A GODDESS / OF EARTH THERE IS NO RIVER WHICH IS CALLED LETHE Last Line: Not to come by %anything got THERE THEY WERE THERE WAS A SALT-WORKS AT STAGE FORT First Line: There was a salt-works at stage fort, in 1656 Last Line: Floating, an island floating in the western sea Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Salt THERE WAS A YOUTH WHOSE NAME WAS THOMAS GRANGER First Line: From the beginning, sin THESE DAYS Poem Text First Line: Whatever you have to say Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary THESE DAYS First Line: Whatever you have to say Last Line: Where they come from Subject(s): Language; Men THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR / AMUSEMENT PARK THESE PEOPLE SAT RIGHT OUT MY WINDOW TOO First Line: Rode in western harbor at the hour I now Last Line: Since they've left the other side england's %shore THEY BRAWLED IN THE STREETS, TRAPPED THE NIGHT WATCHMAN Last Line: Mr. Philip thorne gave bond for them all THEY SAY SHE WENT OFF FUCKING EVERY SUNDAY Last Line: Of that mountain THING WAS MOVING First Line: It's so beautiful, life, goddamn death Last Line: What it is to live, so bashful as man is bare THIS First Line: Mexico could not THIS IS THOTH SPEAKING First Line: A man is a name of a nome THIS MAN'S WEAKNESS IS STRAW THIS TOWN / WORKS AT Last Line: Are washed as gods in the basin of morning THIS YEAR First Line: Thank god life came for me, nerthus gathered me up for her annual THOUGHTS OF THE TIME First Line: The fields of the sky THURS SEPT 14TH 1961 First Line: Elicksander %baker Last Line: And two %in 1917 THY GLEEMAN WHO FLATTERED THEE First Line: As tomorrow as soon as it is day Last Line: Resting on your chin TO A POET WHO READ IN GLOUCESTER ... SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY First Line: There can be no anniversary Last Line: The soul is a body as long as god's TO CORRADO CAGLI First Line: Upon a moebius strip I saw Last Line: Each to other, nested eggs %of elements in trance TO EMPTY THE MIND First Line: The gracious gods TO ENTER INTO THEIR BODIES Last Line: & was very glad TO GERHARDT ... WRITTEN US IN HIS BRIEF AN CREELEY UND OLSON First Line: So pawed, %by this long bear-son Last Line: Do not sniff, neither here %nor there TO HAVE THE BRIGHT BODY OF SEX AND LOVE Last Line: In the sky of egypt TO MAKE THOSE SILENT VESSELS GO, TO MAKE THEM Last Line: Sang, something of it to imagine, and to seek to %draw TO MY POTUGUESE -- AND, SEEING IN A SICILIAN'S HEAD YESTERDAY, & Last Line: Those other darker people of my city she too came from the %islands TO THE ALGAE First Line: Never to say no to the algae suddenly TO THE SHE-BEAR First Line: Sprawled %on the bottom TO TRAVEL TYPHON Last Line: With simp lyle %for manager TO TRY TO GET DOWN ONE CITIZEN AS AGAINST ANOTHER First Line: To but: an act of intelligence TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: I am gilgamesh Last Line: Where I dwelt Subject(s): Legends TOMORROW First Line: I am gilgamesh TOSS, FOR JOHN CAGE First Line: The young dog runs and leaps TOWN First Line: Sheep graze where the cemetery was TREATMENT First Line: She smiled as TRINACRIA First Line: Who fights behind a shield TRIVITTATA First Line: Whelks %gourmandizing TROILUS First Line: Love is not present now TRUE NUMBERS First Line: One face, two face, three TURN NOW AND RISE TURN OUT YOUR Last Line: Dripping %orge TWIST First Line: Trolley-cars Last Line: There, the waters of several of them the roads %here, a blackberry blossom TYRIAN BUSINESS First Line: The waist of a lion Last Line: Who calls herself (luck UNDAZZLED, KEEN, / LOVE SITS UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE UNFINISHED (RAW) HERO Last Line: In a way becoming to %her nature UNIT -- THE SMALLEST -- THERE IS UP THE STEPS, ALONG THE PORCH Last Line: With the morning's mail USEFULNESS / ALL WHICH CAN BE RECOVERED AT THIS DATE Last Line: Ought not to stretch beyond the same VALOREM IS Last Line: Rune of the %nation VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 1. LE BONHEUR Poem Text First Line: Dogwood flakes / what is green Subject(s): Happiness; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891); Joy; Delight VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 1. LE BONHEUR First Line: Dogwood flakes %what is green Last Line: Of any dispersed effort. The hour of death %is the only trepass Subject(s): Happiness; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 2. THE CHARGE Poem Text First Line: Dogwood flakes / the green Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 2. THE CHARGE First Line: Dogwood flakes %the green Last Line: Will be the hour of your death? Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 3. SPRING Poem Text First Line: The dogwood / lights up the day. Subject(s): Spring VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 3. SPRING First Line: The dogwood %lights up the day Last Line: Season of no bungling Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891); Spring VAULT / OF HEAVEN Last Line: By the exercise %of holes VEDA UPANISHED EDDA THAN VIEW - JULY 29, 1961 First Line: The arms Last Line: Of the cut VIEW' FR THE ORONTES FR WHERE TYPHON First Line: The 1st to navigate Last Line: An augustine %land WAR ON THE MIND IN A TIME OF LOVE First Line: Quartermasters and filibusterers WATCH-HOUSE Last Line: One father one mother one city WAY OF THE WORD First Line: The way of the auspex WELL First Line: I can see in the night WEST First Line: I've been absorbed by the subject of america all my life. One piece of it has WEST 6 First Line: Probably the most important person I met in vancouver WEST GLOUCESTER First Line: Condylura %cristata Last Line: In the middle of the %highway WHAT HAD TO GO First Line: Set fire to the city, burn the city down WHAT'S WRONG WITH PINDAR First Line: The pearl. It's baroque. Regular-irregular. A bad dialectic WHEN DO POPPIES BLOOM First Line: When do poppies bloom I ask myself, stopping again Last Line: Come, poppy, when will you bloom Variant Title(s): When Do Poppies Bloom I Ask Myself, Stopping Agai WHEN ONE AGE GOES WITH IT SUDDENLY ITS ERRORS EVAPORATE First Line: The indo-european vision said clouds Last Line: When the crowd comes to see what's %going on WHERE THEY CAME FROM First Line: Young persons came in today WHILE ON / OBADIAH BRUEN'S ISLAND, THE ALGONQUINS Poem Text Last Line: To drink to see WHILE ON / OBADIAH BRUEN'S ISLAND, THE ALGONQUINS WHILE ON / OBADIAH BRUEN'S ISLAND, THE ALGONQUINS Last Line: To drink to see Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism WHITE HORSE Poem Text First Line: White horse he was, to her black foal Last Line: To a tree she curled Subject(s): Horses; Racism WHITE HORSE First Line: White horse he was, to her black foal Last Line: To a tree she curled WHITE SHIPS ALL COVERED WITH ICE Last Line: Blue peter comes from new foundland Subject(s): Ships And Shipping WHO First Line: A decadent people, they fight WHO SINGS AGAINST THINGS First Line: Lie next to the wall WHO SLAYS THE SPANISH SUN WHOLE THING HAS RUN SO FAST AWAY IT BREAKS MY HEART Last Line: Not to notice too directly the street, frozen and slippery as the light WHOLE WORLD First Line: Even culture %ought to WHOLLY ABSORBED Last Line: Keeping my attentions as clear WHY LIGHT, AND FLOWERS? PAUL OAKLEY Last Line: The lay, %of flowers WILD GERANIUM WILL TO First Line: All living thngs %transpire: love alone WILL: TERMITE MOTHERS WILL: THE RAT WILLIAM STEVENS Last Line: On this side of history WILLIE FRANCIS AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIR First Line: Now the preacher told willie when he said his last prayer WILLIE FRANCIS AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIR First Line: O willie francis didn't burn WINDS / WHICH BLEW MY DAUGHTER WINNING THING First Line: What did stevens do if he didn't make ships? As late Last Line: Got hidden all the years? WINTER AFTER First Line: Bitter winter %rain WINTER SOLSTICE First Line: I'm going to get WINTER THE GEN. STARKS WAS STUCK First Line: Out here on the end of the land, it going westward at a known Last Line: Us belief, go on the frozen being and do take the marks and bearings Subject(s): Ships And Shipping WITH WHAT I GOT OUT WITHOUT THE SEASON OF STRUCTURE, MODES LIE LIKE GODS ... First Line: The pearl better WOLF / SLINKS OFF Last Line: My own hand %mine WOMAN WHO SAID SHE WENT OUT EVERY SUNDAY Last Line: And that was how it was she was %so happy WOMAN'S NIPPLES IS THE ROSE OF THE WORLD First Line: The import, of body a hostess at lunch to my friend a representative WONIS KVAM Last Line: On earth's %tit WRIT (1) First Line: Thee place of clear concepts is take by images, anima telluris Last Line: Of the tempting earth WRIT (2) First Line: The place of the clear concept is taken by image. Anima Last Line: As willing as she to respond WROTE MY FIRST POEMS Last Line: With my head %itself Subject(s): Poetry And Poets X TO ZEBRA First Line: Sterooa, stir %by the bird's whir YEAR IS A GREAT CIRCLE OF THE YEAR IS A GREAT MISTAKE First Line: Capricorn (of sizable thirst) YELLOW MASK First Line: Only a few faint elements of order hint Last Line: The light has just been lit YELLOW OF THE MASK First Line: Only a few faint elements of order hint Last Line: The yellow of the mask YOU DREW THE SPACE IN Last Line: Now spread the iron net, %enyalion YOU KNOW, VERSE / IS A LOVELY THING YOU NEED NEVER FEAR YOU, HART CRANE First Line: Space - shroud and a swaddle - you wore YOUNG LADIES / INDEPENDENT SOCIETY Last Line: As our child YOUR EYES First Line: Your eyes of draiad speak YOUR WITNESS NAME POUND, EZRA, BORN MONTANA 1887 [2ND LETTER ON GEORGES] First Line: Went out og gloucester in the winter, around Last Line: Head was jammed in the crutch of the main boom [TO GET THE RITUALS STRAIGHT I HAVE Last Line: Love made known Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Poetry And Poets |
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