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Author: snyder, gary Matches Found: 1087 Kyger, Joanne Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. 526 poems available by this author (HUSHED TONE OF VOICE) Last Line: This story tonight Subject(s): Grief; Loss 12-NOV First Line: Drinking some coffee - I wonder what Last Line: Noon top social graces 12.29 & 30: PAN AS THE SON OF PENELOPE First Line: Refresh my thoughts of penelope again Last Line: About waking up the world 18-AUG First Line: They said the moon wasn't going to rise no no Last Line: Burr-like he closes over us Subject(s): Grief; Loss 19-NOV-82 First Line: Two crows in the pine are loud Last Line: Of brand new iris flowers Subject(s): Grief; Loss 25-DEC First Line: Bill brown has discussed his christmas day Last Line: The wine is still unblighted Subject(s): Grief; Loss 26-JUN First Line: Unexpected gifts %that liven the moments Last Line: Brings your card and our collaboration %almost a year old Subject(s): Grief; Loss 29-MAY First Line: Something sent me back and forth across the room. I didn't find Last Line: I shall not do that again 31-OCT First Line: I am facing an expanse of water. On the other side Last Line: Over the range. To maybe scare you? Love earth animals? ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus? Last Line: Tender life again. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Loss; Mythology; Religion ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus? Last Line: Into passionate life again. %tender life again. %spring 1992 AGAIN First Line: Life has a repetitious feel Last Line: Precious, rare and mundane, where we live Subject(s): Deja Vu; Grief; Loss AGAIN RECOGNIZING Last Line: We had to leave that beautiful place Subject(s): Grief; Loss AH IT'S SOCKED IN TODAY BOYS HEAVY METAL Last Line: And soft grasses Subject(s): Grief; Loss AH IT'S SOCKED IN TODAY BOYS HEAVY METAL Last Line: And soft soft grasses AH PHOOEY First Line: Grafted apples for an entry. Empty Last Line: By merely listening, you add your sound Subject(s): Grief; Loss ALL THIS EVERYDAY, SELS. First Line: When I used to focus on the worries Subject(s): Grief; Loss AND WITH MARCH A DECADE IN BOLINAS First Line: Just sitting around smoking, drinking and telling stories Last Line: Great breath, I give you, great breath! Subject(s): Grief; Loss ANTHRO INFO First Line: The immortals are so old Last Line: When you first started remembering them Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grief; Loss ANYTHING THAT IS CREATED Last Line: And its own empty space Subject(s): Grief; Loss APPLE TREE Last Line: Wonder in the big dome of living tissue.' APPLE, AN ORANGE, AND A FLASHLIGHT FULL MOON ECLIPSE WITH COMET First Line: Glowing full in eastern sky Last Line: A final ghostly marble in relief Subject(s): Grief; Loss APRIL 4, 1975 TIME OF WONDER Last Line: Until our form, exhausted, runs true ARTHUR OKAMURA'S PIPUL TREE'S BODHI LEAF First Line: All these sentient questions Last Line: From every tree Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 1 WEDNESDAY First Line: Oh rainbow %charges the channeling Last Line: A whole flock of meadow larks have arrived Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 15 WEDNESDAY First Line: The phone is constantly busy Last Line: Lushness is returning water Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 16 First Line: Post valentine - dee dee & diana Last Line: Dwell on it Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 16 THURSDAY First Line: It's like regular now the weather Last Line: Back to you later Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 17 FRIDAY First Line: Mist - on the orchids Last Line: Sun at the door - come in Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 6 MONDAY First Line: It's soo cold the garden hose if full Last Line: For the day which is sun Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 7 TUESDAY First Line: The phoebe in the icy cold wind darts quickly Last Line: For long they are gone Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 3, 1989 First Line: Strike the impending muse - phew Last Line: Blossoms of the winter new year Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 5, 1989 First Line: Ridge line silver mist Last Line: In the same sun's dawn Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 6 First Line: Hot morning sun after frost Last Line: You just come here and take the cream off the top Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 16 MONDAY First Line: What's that curling over there Last Line: Words, they're very __. %evaluating Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 24 TUESDAY First Line: Risky show-off shows internal bending. After the superbowl Last Line: Ruffles the light silk garment %of this lone sitter Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 26 THURSDAY First Line: Sheer impudence of just Last Line: Their presence was a guarantee of calm, an antibody to agitation Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 First Line: White sheen on open bolinas ridge top Last Line: Gleaming, silver, white. Happy birthday Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT PT. REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE Last Line: Break water '85 %and still alive Subject(s): Grief; Loss AVA GARDNER AFTER CHRISTMAS First Line: Cold air rushing under door Last Line: Browsing: a semi-contented mind Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Motion Pictures; Stars BACK FROM BISBEE: OR CLEAN UP TIME IN BOLINAS First Line: For one thing the sun has appeared as bobbie louise Last Line: Steps. 'did you bring the beer?' she said Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACK IN TIME First Line: Hurry up and do the laundry Last Line: But then of course I have the money BACK TO SCHOOL First Line: I'm off to work Last Line: This same old self become mindful again and well Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACK TO THE LIFE OF NAROPA First Line: It's ghastly. It's been %going on for some time Last Line: And goes back to his silent sitting Subject(s): Grief; Loss BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE' First Line: Dappled big leaf maple light Last Line: And enlightenment is creative' Subject(s): Grief; Loss BILL BROWN IS TOO SHORT OF BREATH Last Line: I'm bill brown and I'm looking at a final spot Subject(s): Grief; Loss BIRD FAMILY Last Line: All this %every day BOB CREELEY HAS DIED AND HE IS TO HAVE A TIBETAN CEREMONY. Last Line: I look at him emotionally, %sexually Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB GRENIER OLD FRIEND LOST HIM SOMEWHERE OUT THERE First Line: At rca beach with his notebook and hand Last Line: Hard impudent and thrifty Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB GRENIER'S BLACKBERRY PIE First Line: What else do you want Last Line: Of the pie down the road take me there Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB MARLEY NIGHT SATURDAY DOWNTOWN First Line: Dream like the lights have a dark smoky glow and the street Last Line: They told me there would be people like you here Subject(s): Grief; Loss BRAIN IMPRESSED IN ITS ODDITIES First Line: Is full of futility. So there Last Line: Are the eyes, off my ass! BREAKFAST. HE ASSURED ME Last Line: In the blue california sun Subject(s): Grief; Loss BRIGHT, SPARKLING Last Line: Of the border down border down %mexico way BRING YOUR JUNGLE ALONG First Line: Full of sledge hammers and compassion Last Line: So we remember. And how were you to know Subject(s): Grief; Loss BRISK WIND IS BLOWING THOUGHTS TO PHILIP ON THE PHONE First Line: The new york times says I'm a language poet Last Line: Well if you don't, I won't keep trying Subject(s): Grief; Loss BURNING THE BABY T MAKE HIM REALER First Line: Dipping him at night in the kitchen Last Line: Ripping the morning glories 3 times from the pot CALM & COOL ECONOMICS First Line: I'm the world economy Last Line: And I don't want %to be stimulated Subject(s): Grief; Loss CAN'T WE REST ANOTHER DAY? First Line: Keep the fire %banked Last Line: At the end of the year Subject(s): Grief; Loss CAPTION FOR A MINIATURE First Line: Outside where the storm goes cracked Last Line: And get all crummy and muddy Subject(s): Grief; Loss CAPTION FOR A MINIATURE First Line: Outside where the storm goes cracked Last Line: And get all crummy and muddy. %1962 new delhi CHILL WAVES Last Line: As I go over them COLD Last Line: When does the transmission come Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Loss; Zen Buddhism COMPASSION IS Last Line: The endless dimensions of this moment.' Subject(s): Grief; Loss CONSTANTLY OPENING UP THOSE DARK ARMS First Line: Belonged to everyone who read his poems, listened Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Grief; Loss CONTINUING ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF NAROPA First Line: So %he gets fired up and burnt up Last Line: No second helpings here Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Perseverance CRYSTAL IN TAMALPAIS First Line: In tamalpais is a big crystal. An acquaintance told Last Line: And that's the first story I ever heard about bolinas DAILY MEDITATIONS Last Line: Is going beyond behind the sunset upstairs Subject(s): Grief; Loss DANCE First Line: A step into %the dance Last Line: Is his %when he pleases DARRELL GRAY DIES WHEN I AM IN MEXICO Last Line: For the next hand to fill up Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEAR DEAR LITTLE WRENTIT WITH WHITE CIRCLE AROUND YOUR EYE Last Line: As all falls silent Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEAR, DEAREST Last Line: They all speak words of love to each other. %1.66 DEATH VALLEY DESERT NOTES First Line: With depressing & unexpected news Last Line: And awe majestic old time news Subject(s): Death Valley; Grief; Loss DEATH VALLEY DESERT NOTES First Line: With depressing & unexpected news Last Line: And awe majestic old time news %spring 1989 DEFINITELY RESISTANCE Last Line: The wind is in the light of the sun Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEFYING GRAVITY Last Line: Rain storm late morning Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEPRESSED ENNUI BEFORE 11 A.M. First Line: Now's the time to catch it in words, those pungent Last Line: Of the danger of the situation. He lays down and goes to sleep Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEPRESSED ENNUI BEFORE 11 A.M. First Line: Now's the time to catch it in words, those pungent Last Line: And goes to sleep DESCARTES AND THE SPLENDOR OF First Line: We are now on an adventure of rightly applying our vigorous Last Line: Mother god in the castle, of heaven DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: Wednesday. I am alone. Everything is tidy Last Line: Dave ( and elizabeth) caught a fish DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: There is a main street in this town. Wait wait don't Last Line: A red cape. %green shoes DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: I will lay briefly only on this question of why. It is the Last Line: So cool in the early morning, here DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: Peter said yesterday, looking at his Last Line: Then he lost them DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: Pearly %pearly %pearly Last Line: Whittamore strut elbows high DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: Monday %the lord is gracious Last Line: Beloved %rock %elisheba DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: I thought %you said Last Line: The belief in the capacity of what I see %this write often DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: He played the harp Last Line: Only love's hurried urgency DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: Generosity: I allow %your existence Last Line: In the mind close %to the home camp DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: Phoebe macadams had %her baby last night Last Line: To. And I get down in a rush. Shiny black shoes DESECHEO NOTEBOOK First Line: The head of n - x Last Line: The accuser stands revealed DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: A LITTLE REVERY First Line: Shao, john thorpe, and I are in this room and Last Line: Of the creeley's phone book %in bolinas %friday DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: DESECHEO First Line: Off west coast puerto rico Last Line: They have auras %travel broadens DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: FRIDAY First Line: Visiting gary's house last night. The sleeping Last Line: Country. The picture of peter peeled gets bigger and bigger DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: FRIDAY'S NATURE First Line: Can a wild animal %exist anymore Last Line: Further away %into crammed people land %new york %march-april 1971 DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: MONDAY First Line: Styrne %sternness: an essay on Last Line: Ing for the ultimate lady-like way for the perfection of toilet DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: MONDAY First Line: Main street has been wiped out Last Line: This was a flat sea DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: SATURDAY First Line: Tom says you got me Last Line: My own opened out DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: SATURDAY First Line: Oh fish of the sea Last Line: Now it is meat, fish meat DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: SUNDAY First Line: I know I do not suffer more than anyone Last Line: Speck in side dwindles so small DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: THURSDAY First Line: I am in bed with jack. Peter Last Line: Of the maternal unconscious DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: THURSDAY First Line: The quality of mind Last Line: I just want a place %for myself DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: THURSDAY APRIL 1 First Line: Grey day %at 10 Last Line: Smelling of the ocean %news of bolinas DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: TUESDAY First Line: What living on an island is all about Last Line: Milarepa. Houdini. The magician's fire DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: TUESDAY First Line: Boulders %breakers in the clear Last Line: I strongly sense I will not leave this island alive DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: TUESDAY MARCH 16 First Line: Maybe if I change the point Last Line: Ocean shore, train station, great house. Road to town DESECHEO NOTEBOOK: TUESDAY MARCH 16 First Line: Hunch back whales, big white breakers Last Line: Not dwell in concepts oh jung DESTRUCTION Poem Text Recitation First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness DESTRUCTION First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through Last Line: Of lsd, peyote, psilocybin, amanita, benzedrine, valium and aspirin Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEW SWEET LAW Last Line: All the food is his Subject(s): Grief; Loss DHARANI First Line: Hail! Bear in mind, bear in mind Last Line: Enlighten us absolutely you can do it DHARMA: THE SUITCASE OF MANY MEANINGS First Line: Amid all the blood of illusion, eating roast chicken Last Line: But cuts across the reflex of a star Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss; Pollution DICTIONARY'S GUARANTEED SUCCESS First Line: There was no electgricity. Simone couldn't type Last Line: And lumbricoid. And finally, there was smiley's Subject(s): Grief; Loss DID I CALL YOU? First Line: Was it you I called up Last Line: Last night? Subject(s): Grief; Loss DINNER AT BRIARCOMB, THAT ARTISTS' POSH RETREAT Last Line: My absolute best worst Subject(s): Grief; Loss DON'T HOPE TO GAIN BY WHAT HAS PRECEDED; LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY First Line: Back to silent big soap flakes Last Line: Dreamed for, brain spinner, %garbage maker Subject(s): Grief; Loss DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELECTRONIC Last Line: Well no. The neighbor's doggy ate him Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM First Line: There's a big art show in a large auditorium Last Line: Words down the page. %'oh louie' I say Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM First Line: I'm doing this poetry reading with simone Last Line: So please - bring me the light Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM IS DREAMING Last Line: On- - on- %off - off Subject(s): Grief; Loss DRIED SHRIMP First Line: When no alternatives are left Last Line: And our old father leaves us Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Mexico; Nostalgia ELLIPTICAL AND IRREGULAR Last Line: I mean learning Subject(s): Grief; Loss EMPTY SHRINE BUDDHA First Line: If you grow your hair you save on heating bills Last Line: Money can't buy Subject(s): Grief; Loss ENGLISH' SPARROWS IN THE COURTYARD DON'T KNOW Last Line: To the darker corners of the room ENORMOUS SIGH First Line: The bardo of continuing limbo equals no access Last Line: Is just that longing Subject(s): Grief; Loss EVERY DAY I BURN A STICK OF INCENSE Last Line: The power of belief %is from me Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Loss EVERYONE IS FLYING VERY WELL, EASILY IN THE SKY KITTY, POPPED OUT... First Line: One would just like to fly out in pure invention Last Line: Never quite the same Subject(s): Grief; Loss EXCERPT FROM THE REAL NEWS First Line: Joe dunn's sweet laugh, 'kids, come to poetry' Last Line: I forget I can be here with you in the evening- %a full fragment Subject(s): Grief; Loss FALL EQUINOX First Line: A lone %hummingbird sits on the limb where there used to be Last Line: In fall's purple blossoms my sleeve sniff! Is wet Subject(s): Grief; Loss FALL EQUINOX First Line: A lone %hummingbird sits on the limb where there used to be two Last Line: In fall's purple blossoms my sleeve sniff! Is wet FALL HAS ARRIVED WITH QUICK CLEAR BLUE SKIES Last Line: Down the dusty night road Subject(s): Grief; Loss FAR OFF PINE Last Line: The path of rhythm with rhythm, positively breathing FEBRUARY 17 FRIDAY First Line: Mist on the orchids Last Line: Sun at the door come in FEBRUARY 27 SUNDAY First Line: His eyes were rolled up into his head Last Line: This is too hard Subject(s): Grief; Loss FEBRUARY 7 TUESDAY First Line: The phoebe in the icy cold wind darts quickly Last Line: For long they are gone FEW DAYS LATER AT THE WASHTUB Last Line: That the present has always existed Subject(s): Grief; Loss FIRST NATION First Line: Back in first nation time, morning of the world time Last Line: It's always been Subject(s): Grief; Loss FIRST SIGHTING EVER OF GREY SQUIRREL ON MESA! Last Line: Party which holds power by deception %repression & fraud Subject(s): Grief; Loss FLOATING OF THE SILVER CHINESE PAPER First Line: Would you put this piece Last Line: And goes away out there Subject(s): Grief; Loss FOG IS HALFWAY OVER THE MESA First Line: My table of life for the past Last Line: As a picture in the evening FOR THE PITTOSPORUM TENUIFOLIUM OUTSIDE THE STUDIO WINDOW First Line: Much too hard to understand all Last Line: In the attentive noon breeze Variant Title(s): For The Pittasporum Tenuifolium Outside The Studio Windo Subject(s): Grief; Loss FOR THE SAKE OF THE KAGYU TEACHINGS, Last Line: On december 15, 1982 by chogyam trungpa Subject(s): Grief; Loss FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons FOREVER AND A WHILE First Line: There's not just a single actor Last Line: Of a real dream's dream FRAGMENTED. IE SEVERAL VALLEYS Last Line: Gets through. That's all we can hope for. %2.63 FRESH EARLY MORNING LIGHT AND AGAIN Last Line: Of very teeny pot plants Subject(s): Grief; Loss FRIDAY 2:44 PM First Line: The sun is about to pass Last Line: It's here the moment begins Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Loss FRIDAY NIGHT First Line: In pale blue dusk sky moon Last Line: Up there friend moon %is getting larger Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moon FROM HERE TO BERKELEY Last Line: To kwan yin's yarrow patch Subject(s): Grief; Loss FROM THE JATAKA TALES First Line: He gave the king a charm Last Line: To the voice of the ants: so little - is so big Subject(s): Grief; Loss FROM THE LIFE OF NAROPA First Line: So %he gets fired up and burnt up Last Line: No second helpings here. %september 10 and 11, 1990 FROM THIS MOMENT Last Line: Eternal youth, her own love of herself FULL OF BIRDS IN THE FIRST Last Line: In this rain, in the gather dome Subject(s): Grief; Loss GALE WAS UPON US IN A SECOND. WAS IT THE DOPE Last Line: Down in an obligatory %engulfing swoosh Subject(s): Grief; Loss GET UP THE SCREEN OF DRINKING HERONS Last Line: With silken shawls Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIFT FROM RICK MORNING DREAM JUNE 14, 1999 First Line: Rick fields and I Last Line: Christ is a coyote Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIN JOHN First Line: Michelle tells me Last Line: Grace! Copal! Iris! Eleusis Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIVERNY I AM FOR GEE VERR NEE Last Line: I try to talk numero uno Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLAD TO BE BACK TO YOU, NOW, SOFT FOG Last Line: Its brittle way, in crisp windswept day, after day with poetry Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLIDING STEPS GLIDING STEPS WE ARE AT THE EDGE First Line: Of the ocean & land and a fire Last Line: Goodbye so gracefully Subject(s): Grief; Loss GOING OUT TO WATER THE GARDEN, Last Line: Is all about at this moment of bamboo buckeye hesitation Subject(s): Grief; Loss GOOD MANNERS First Line: The bodhisattva waits Last Line: Before he excuses himself Subject(s): Grief; Loss GRATEFUL First Line: After two months in mexico Last Line: And one woolly one.' Subject(s): Grief; Loss HAIKU FOR CHARLES BERRARD ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY First Line: Man get relaxed Last Line: Women get permanent Subject(s): Grief; Loss HAIKU FOR CHARLES BERRARD ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY First Line: Man get relaxed Last Line: Woman get permanent HAVEN'T I SEEN YOU Last Line: When I began Subject(s): Deja Vu; Grief; Loss HAVING A GRAND TIME WITH THE HOT SHOTS...OR HOW I RAN INTO First Line: Well I'm back from new york poetry trip now and raring to go Last Line: Bolinas store and caught up some more names with him. Um Subject(s): Grief; Loss HE MAKES LOVE TO HER Last Line: Some clothes, some jewels %some food, some love Subject(s): Grief; Loss HEADY DAY OF SUN WADING IN BOLINAS LAGOON TOPS Last Line: And I discover my own %particular habitual ennui Subject(s): Grief; Loss HI! IT'S TOM' Last Line: No more phone calls ever again Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOLDING ON TO THE EDGE Last Line: Too good for you, kid. %kid Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOME First Line: I am home Last Line: (like here dog! Here dog!) Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Loss HORRENDOUS PREFERENCES Last Line: With the awareness of death: quel probleme Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOW DOES ONE ATTAIN THAT POPULAR NARRATIVE Last Line: In the late afternoon Subject(s): Grief; Loss HUNT IN THE WOOD: PAOLO UCCELLO First Line: The greyhounds go leaping into the woods Last Line: And the deer rushes back towards them I AM AFRAID Last Line: I think I may have to do this forever %just forever & ever I AM NOT GOING TO BE INTIMIDATED Last Line: I can just enjoy breathing Subject(s): Grief; Loss I BLINKED MY EYES, LOOKED UP AND EVERYONE WAS 25 YEARS OLDER- First Line: When you're alive you get to Last Line: An hour and a half late for lunch Subject(s): Grief; Loss I CAN'T HELP IT First Line: Wandering through the rooms Last Line: Look I'll do it for you once more %to way wheet wheet I DIDN'T WANT TO THINK Last Line: How long is it we stay together. %11.12.65 I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY Last Line: Keep the house clean I DON'T WANT TO REPEAT Last Line: In bright sky blue I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO UTTER A MEANINGFUL UTTERANCE BUT First Line: I can take the lightweight branch of a tree from a window Last Line: Land.... Plenty of room there Subject(s): Grief; Loss I HAVE NO STRENGTH FOR MINE First Line: I stay clear. %I won't listen Last Line: Arrows in their stiff form laid in sleep %and the moons stacked up like shields Subject(s): Grief; Loss I NEED SOME TEA TO WAKE TO BEAUTIFUL First Line: Clear warm evening on the way to alice's reading Last Line: As a perfect gift Subject(s): Grief; Loss I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER GET OUT HERE AGAIN Last Line: Much I want to drift, into story land, take life %a little easier I THOUGHT, I'LL MAKE IT SO SIMPLE First Line: Anyone can get it understand Last Line: Who's not so wild anymore Subject(s): Grief; Loss I WALKED HOME & HAD SOME SOUP Last Line: To as many people as you can I WANT A SMALLER THING IN MIND Last Line: They happen to me all the time Subject(s): Grief; Loss I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT I AM NOT UP TIGHT Last Line: I am not up tight I'D LIKE TO MAGIC YOU ON THIS GRAND OCCASION Last Line: I depart I depart I depart I'M GOING TO BE A POET Last Line: Life is beset by small accidents IF BIRD GETS NOISY First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence II First Line: Muso soseki %companion on the beach Last Line: Silver inlets %down the coast Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Seashore ILIAD: ACHILLES DOES NOT DIE First Line: Leaving him alive abruptly that way Last Line: & the tenderness of mortals IMAGINARY APPARITIONS, SELS. First Line: The center of the garden Last Line: And they were walking there IMAGINARY APPARITIONS, SELS. First Line: Like a lantern Last Line: We are the minds of this country IMAGINARY APPARITIONS, SELS. First Line: I didn't know which direction Last Line: Like a dark red bruise, the house IMAGINARY APPARITIONS, SELS. First Line: August 18: they said the moon wasn't going to rise no no Last Line: Burr-like he closes over us IMAGINARY APPARITIONS, SELS. First Line: In the high %clear air Last Line: Changes around the sky %changes IMAGINARY APPARITIONS, SELS. First Line: There are acres and acres of fields to go Last Line: She bows her head to kiss him IN MEMORIAM First Line: First, there were the first people Last Line: Want to move, they didn't want to move Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss IN MY DREAM LAST NIGHT DEER LADY Last Line: Of land outside the door Subject(s): Grief; Loss IN MY IMAGINARY CONVERSATION Last Line: Inside a flower, a wonderful room IN OUR YARD Last Line: In the late may rain Subject(s): Grief; Loss INCENSE FOR THE BUDDHA First Line: Boy do I burn Last Line: A lot & that's about all %I do Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Incense-trees; Loss INFLECTION First Line: Rita was mad at me. At lynn's opening she was wearing Last Line: Again was the hit word, gwenn told me Subject(s): Grief; Loss INFLUENCES IN POETRY First Line: Dream: %in a room - getting ready for a party Last Line: Duncan looks pretty strange himself Subject(s): Grief; Loss IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN DO THIS ANY BETTER? First Line: No, this is fine Last Line: And feed as we've done? Subject(s): Grief; Loss IS THIS THE BUDDHA? Last Line: See the truly enlightened other. Thank you. %it's me IT CERTAINLY WAS DIVINE RUNNING INTO YOU First Line: Well, just a momentary good idea as your form Last Line: New moon %has hardly seemed to grow Subject(s): Conventions; Environment; Grief; Loss IT IS LONELY Last Line: Large black butterflies like birds IT IS TRUE Last Line: Oh it's all passed, gone, gone, gone IT IS TRUE, THERE IS POWER WITHIN US. BUT I AM SO Last Line: Oh it's all passed, gone, gone, gone Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S A GREAT DAY Last Line: Air, the best teacher is alive IT'S A GREAT DAY. LAST NIGHT I VISITED MY OLD Last Line: Air, the best teacher is alive Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME Last Line: On what only: the song that girl sang the song that girl sang IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME Last Line: On what only: the song that girl sang the song that girl sang Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S DIFFERENT HERE NOW HAVING BEEN First Line: To the other coast and returned to hit Last Line: At the table Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S LONELY Last Line: Oh no %oh no Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S SO First Line: It's so hot and sleepy at two this afternoon Last Line: O go to the beach drag yourself to the shore Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S SO QUIET Last Line: In the courtyard fountain Subject(s): Grief; Loss ITSY BITSY POLKA DOT REVIEW First Line: Well, I'll never sell myself Last Line: Darn hard to come by Subject(s): Grief; Loss ITSY BITSY POLKA DOT REVIEW First Line: Well, I'll never sell myself Last Line: Damn hard to come by JOANNE First Line: The reasonable restraints. This has been Last Line: Is part of this whole natural process JOANNE First Line: Drop it away Last Line: The devil's all about: separate JOANNE First Line: Beauty then is the final cause Last Line: I wasn't built in a day JOANNE First Line: I hope this working out as a novel Last Line: The substance. Other wise, inside JOANNE First Line: Doesn't make any difference Last Line: If I've forgotten any thing JOANNE First Line: The spring %beneath the tent Last Line: When I couldn't sleep last night JOANNE First Line: Wood %sweep %ocean %music Last Line: Shells %wood %notes JOANNE First Line: Sunday %will either of them ever awaken Last Line: Oh paul my friend, arise! %the vast topples JOANNE First Line: Monday %war that is battle Last Line: No defeat no iching JOANNE First Line: She was a busy body Last Line: And did everything well JOANNE First Line: You've broken so Last Line: Many things I have %penelope JOANNE First Line: Perfect thought: the relationship of everything Last Line: Don't give it to anybody else JOANNE First Line: The revolution Last Line: She convinced herself JOANNE First Line: Her head really Last Line: On the subject JOANNE First Line: Well, eating & pleasure Last Line: Work. It's work %pleasurable anarchy JOANNE First Line: Breakfast. He assured me Last Line: In the blue california sun JOANNE First Line: Don't put your most Last Line: Intimate %in action JOANNE First Line: Some thing open Last Line: Some thing closed JOANNE First Line: 2 guys really high up Last Line: High joanne hi joanne JOANNE First Line: But she's wonderful Last Line: And I love her JOANNE First Line: My %shining star Last Line: Oh moon %can't get JOANNE First Line: Over and over Last Line: Until you go %ahead again JOANNE First Line: When I invoke the moon Last Line: And all of bolinas %at my feet JOANNE First Line: As in your mortal moon Last Line: No where you are %fragile, inactive JOANNE First Line: What on earth to do Last Line: I am always right JOANNE First Line: O moon walking home on the dirt road Last Line: What my mouth says JOANNE First Line: Don't do this - don't do that Last Line: Don't ride a horse %too long JOANNE First Line: Oh moon Last Line: That's all I know JOANNE First Line: Well I didn't want you to leave Last Line: Bands of iris %clumps of nasturtium JOANNE First Line: In california Last Line: What kind of oak do they %have here, %sherman oak JOANNE First Line: Doll's house Last Line: Of the children music JOANNE First Line: Well I just want you to Last Line: Know the truth JOANNE First Line: He makes love to her Last Line: Some food, some love JOANNE First Line: In the corner Last Line: I am everybody JOANNE First Line: You write from the inside Last Line: Go to sleep JOANNE First Line: A life time Last Line: What happened %it stopped JOANNE First Line: It's always free Last Line: It's always easy %1970 summer bolinas JULY '92 AT NAROPA First Line: With the term 'counter-poetics' we might ask Last Line: Eruption of the marvelous into everyday life' --p.L. Wilson Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Poetry And Poets JULY 21: WEEDY First Line: You could see the fishes swimming around your legs, also bits Last Line: And wake up finally. When they beat the butterflies on the bushes %and make them rise JUST WHERE DID THESE THOUGHTS GO? Last Line: Ride bicycle out into the night Subject(s): Grief; Idealism; Loss KARMAPA SPOKE TO ME FROM A CENTER OF LIGHT Last Line: While we lay low Subject(s): Grief; Loss LANDSCAPE RISING First Line: These people may not be everybody's cup of tea Last Line: Of marin county and the golden gate bridge Subject(s): Grief; Loss LATE AFTERNOON RAINBOW First Line: Coyote's bow Last Line: Somebody is getting born Subject(s): Grief; Loss LAY IT TO REST WHERE YOU ARE First Line: After agate beach reef Last Line: Over compost heap %in our garden Subject(s): Grief; Loss LIFE OF NAROPA FOR TED BERRIGAN First Line: In dream land where I am sitting on evergreen road, the fly Last Line: Uncover the wish-fulfilling gem, the hidden home of the dikini Subject(s): Grief; Loss LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE 'WOODS' First Line: At least it's simple %to mind the wild Last Line: The red fuchsia %has just gone has just gone to the dump Subject(s): Grief; Loss LOOK THE BIRD IS MAKING PLANS Last Line: Fix it I'm going. %4.63 LOOKING OUT TO THE GARDEN FAIR Last Line: Our deepest bass drum, the heart LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO RAIN ANY MINUTE First Line: It's been four months since my mother died, aged 92 Last Line: Separated according to color Subject(s): Grief; Loss LORD GANESHA First Line: He is in the mountains and in the streams, the fields Last Line: Throughout by the eye of the intelligent self LOVE BOAT First Line: Lynn doesn't want to miss the full moon tonight Last Line: - named tequila moonshine %light touched waters Subject(s): Grief; Loss LOVE/SNOW First Line: When people say they love me I tell them/I wish I could stop thinking of robert Last Line: Give me a loaf of bread -- I loaf you!/frost whenever it snows Subject(s): Frost; Grief; Loss; Puns; Winter MAY 2 MUSINGS First Line: I'm spaced after the liturgy of it all, the very Last Line: On the mesa ghetto Subject(s): Grief; Loss MAZE First Line: I saw the %dead bird on the sidewalk Last Line: To the walls Subject(s): Grief; Loss MAZE First Line: I saw the %dead bird on the sidewalk Last Line: Sharp jabs of long pins %to the walls. MIDNIGHT First Line: Phone call from cass Last Line: You gave to me %to encourage phenomenology Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Singing And Singers MIWOK MANDARIN BOLINAS BAMBOO First Line: What's that fur rug hanging over there Last Line: Deer passing thru Subject(s): Grief; Loss MIWOK MANDARIN BOLINAS BAMBOO First Line: What's that fur rug hanging over there Last Line: Deep passing thru MOMENTS THAT COME First Line: I am dancing around the plaza with a policeman Last Line: Who passes through softly %on her journey Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Loss; Sin MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 14, 1984 First Line: Now we've gotten that out of the way Last Line: On 6 o'clock tv tonight MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 14, 1984: First Line: Now we've gotten that out of the way Last Line: On 6 o'clock - tv tonight Subject(s): Grief; Loss MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 First Line: Little bird died Last Line: What you are what you are %what you are MORNING IS SUCH A WELCOME TIME. IT DOESN'T DEMAND Last Line: Are my startled guests as this morning proceeds normally out of doors Subject(s): Grief; Loss MORNING MESS First Line: Just waiting to go out there and boogie it up Last Line: The boon of illimitable life is obtained MY FATHER DIED THIS SPRING Last Line: But blood does bring curiosity. %9.15.63 %kyoto MY FATHER DIED THIS SPRING' Last Line: And an old man. It's impossible to know %but strange how blood brings curiosity Subject(s): Grief; Loss MY HOW THE DAYS FLY BY IN LIFE TIME First Line: So now the sun shines Last Line: Of being born human, once again Subject(s): Grief; Loss MY SISTER EVELYNE First Line: Samath %tuesday, february 13 Last Line: In the dark, expensive shoes. %perfect teeth MY VISION IS A LARGE GOLDEN ROOM Last Line: You're there to move out %from the source. %god's mountain, sun street Subject(s): Grief; Loss MYTHICAL MANY ANTLERED WHITE BUCK Last Line: Nibbling new green grass %stop the car! Subject(s): Grief; Loss NARCISSUS First Line: Credit %I never get any credit Last Line: I am so lonely. I've never been so lonely Subject(s): Grief; Loss NARCISSUS First Line: Credit %I never get any credit Last Line: I am so lonely. I've never %been so lonely.' NAROPA APPROACHES HIS TEACHER: INSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN First Line: How's it going boss? Last Line: Here, I'll kiss it and make it better Variant Title(s): Naropa Approaches His Teacher Instruction Time Agai Subject(s): Grief; Loss NARRATIVE AS ATTENTION ON A RAINY SUNDAY'S PHENOMENOLOGY First Line: And sweet sly good nights Last Line: Of enlightened harmony a week later Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS VERY RAPIDLY SENSITIVELY MOVING OVER THE BODY... First Line: The mystic heat is tuned up in naropa's awareness Last Line: A continent away Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEVER TALK AHEAD Last Line: This is living %to give you a present NEW BULLETIN FROM KEITH LAMPE Last Line: This applies to both greater vehicles and lesser vehicles Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEW SMELL IN THE WRITING ROOM First Line: After nine years these walls are painted white; again Last Line: On still sagging shelves Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEWS BULLETIN FROM KEITH LAMPE: SOON First Line: Little neural annie was fined $65 in the oakland Last Line: This applies to both greater vehicles and lesser vehicles NO ESCAPE Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self NO ONE WAS WATCHING THE TORTILLAS Last Line: I am the big rolling, breathing, sliding %sighing, lifting %ground! NO USE CREEPING THRU THE FOG WITH A DRIVER WHO WON'T First Line: Attempting meditation this morning mind jumps all Last Line: Ball back and forth three miles to town bye-bye Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOT MUCH TIME LEFT Last Line: Or relocation breath like me interested %in prolonging history Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOT REALLY APRIL First Line: Ever see robins sumo wrestle? Last Line: Know how to call you up Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOT YET First Line: Not tomorrow night Last Line: Then the moon will be full Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOVEL First Line: I woke up very angry because I wanted to see where they Last Line: When they take you along, all the ill-made parts that make you so scared NOVEMBER 19: 50 YEARS First Line: This year's birthday Last Line: The buddha %gets enlightened %tomorrow Subject(s): Grief; Loss O FRESH DAY IN FEBRUARY Last Line: I listen for the melody %to sing along OBSERVE THE LACYPINK CORALINE ALGAE ON THE ROCKS AT LOW TIDE First Line: A stately form proceeds Last Line: Voice over again %voice over Subject(s): Grief; Loss OCEAN PARKWAY GAZING First Line: Ocean up %against cliff Last Line: The sea closes in %up to the edge %of mythology Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Grief; Loss; Nature; Sea; Trees OCTOBER 28. TAKE IT EASIER First Line: I wonder what the ocean is like today? Last Line: It is in the spot I am going to now OCTOBER 29, 1963, WEDNESDAY First Line: In a crowd of people I am suddenly elevated. No matter that Last Line: As much as a foot, two feet, grind. In my tibetan bathrobe. %silence Subject(s): Grief; Loss OCTOBER 29, WEDNESDAY First Line: In a crowd of people I am suddenly elevated. No matter that Last Line: You're not intelligent enough ODYSSEY POEMS First Line: There is no meeting Last Line: Give me a lot of wine ODYSSEY POEMS: 1. APRIL 8: THE PLAN: SAN FRANCISCO First Line: Where ever you go I am with you.' Last Line: A guarding the entrance to ithaca ODYSSEY POEMS: 2 First Line: Whether he is dead or not and that animal moves up the hall Last Line: Under a rock from the wind. %4.9.64 ODYSSEY POEMS: 3 First Line: Land at the first point you meet Last Line: Directly to the house of his friend ODYSSEY POEMS: 4 First Line: Still after 15 years or more she doesn't know Last Line: Comes down and puts her to sleep ODYSSEY POEMS: 5. MEETING First Line: For by day my one relief is to weep and sigh Last Line: And she places a good chair to hear what goes on ODYSSEY POEMS: 6 First Line: Here it is, the last day. And what has happened Last Line: I guess it's good to know where you're going. %may 22, 1964 ODYSSEY POEMS: 7. FROM OUR SOUNDEST SLEEP, IT ENDS First Line: She finished up the web, it had to do with her father she said Last Line: All confusion gone, and nodding their heads wondered where they had gone. %12.1.64 ODYSSEY POEMS: IN JULY: GERANIUMS First Line: Taking a walk in the morning Last Line: The great and good sun comes out, the sun is a star OF ALL THINGS FOR YOU TO GO AWAY Last Line: Gets nourished, by your friendly handsome looks. You read %a lot of books OF ALL THINGS FOR YOU TO GO AWAY MAD Last Line: You read a lot of books Subject(s): Grief; Loss OFT HAVE I WONDERED AND CLIMBED Last Line: These dusty greens in yellow OFTEN I TRY SO HARD WITH STIMULANTS Last Line: Where things are exactly what they are OH GOODY THIS AFTERNOON WE'RE GOING TO THE HOLY FOREST First Line: I want to find the place Last Line: Of content content and form Subject(s): Grief; Loss OH MAN IS THE HIGHEST TYPE OF ANIMAL EXISTING Last Line: That man about town gone again OH MAN IS THE HIGHEST TYPE OF ANIMAL EXISTING Last Line: That man about town gone again Subject(s): Grief; Loss OH, THE WEATHER, THE WEATHER Last Line: And calm drastic winds of change Subject(s): Change; Grief; Loss; Weather ON MOVING TO THE NAROPA CAMPUS FALL 1991 First Line: This for the tuesday morning Last Line: Snow %on the way in the foothills Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moving And Movers; Rooms; Universities & Colleges ON READING ENOUGH SAID, FOR JOANNE (AS PER USUAL) First Line: Calm down! %white crown sparrow pop-pop-pop-pop Last Line: Generous fearlessness & skillfull compassion with the flame tree Subject(s): Grief; Loss ON THE OTHER SIDE First Line: On the other side of the sliding glass door Last Line: Vanishes in the out of doors Subject(s): Grief; Loss ONCE AGAIN ANOTHER CENTURY AHEAD First Line: Again. Is this happening again? Last Line: Does this include even what you don't like? %oh ick Subject(s): Grief; Loss ONLY ONE JAY LEFT AFTER NOISY CONFERENCE OF TWO Last Line: For springtime garnering Subject(s): Grief; Loss OOOLD MAN TOLSTOY First Line: I need a bitter taste a tonic Last Line: For spring %lightness Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Loss; Spring OPEN AMARYLLIS SALMON PINK & WHITE First Line: A varied thrush arrives Last Line: Buried underground Subject(s): Grief; Loss PAN AS THE SON OF PENELOPE First Line: Refresh my thoughts of penelope again Last Line: About waking up the world Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Penelope (mythology) PART OF MY SEMINAL GROUND WORK First Line: Help %the gold crown song returned today Last Line: This is the very best I can do %achoo Subject(s): Allergies; Grief; Loss PASSING THROUGH THE GARDEN First Line: Jim anderson phones to tell me max did not Last Line: As we watch. %vast Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Memory PERSIMMONS ARE FALLING Last Line: - some people have well lived rooms. December 1963 PHENOMENOLOGICAL:MARCH 7, WEDNESDAY PALENQUE 1985 First Line: It is raining. %we have our straw hats Last Line: What's the name of this place!' PHENOMENOLOGICAL:MARCH 8, THURSDAY First Line: Morning %temple of the cross Last Line: The most beautiful guard %of this temple PHILIP WHALEN'S HAT First Line: I woke up about 2:30 this morning and thought about philip's hat Last Line: You can just play with the beads Subject(s): Grief; Hats; Loss PHONE CALL FROM MILOSZ First Line: American poetry equals an enormous collection Last Line: And that's the end of the day again Subject(s): Grief; Loss PIGS FOR CIRCE IN MAY First Line: I almost ruined the stew and where Last Line: And the great pigs waddle off in the sky Subject(s): Grief; Loss PLACES TO GO First Line: Perhaps you can remember this all if you think hard enough Last Line: Quite so fast, my voice cracks PLACES TO GO: HERE First Line: It is very easy to listen to when they spell it out easy Last Line: The sky races, watch me watch me, sparkling and %sprinkling and shaking POISON OAK FOR ALLEN First Line: Here I am reading about your trip to india again Last Line: The bear? Subject(s): Grief; Loss POST CONSCIOUSNESS First Line: Implausible thoughts around very real spring flowers Last Line: Now move those awful blue glass bunnies Subject(s): Grief; Loss PROVERBIAL FRIDAY THE 13TH: BOLINAS MYSTERIES UNREVEALED First Line: Katherine mansfield's life unfolds on the pages of Last Line: Is to have obtained the highest realization in mahamudra Subject(s): Grief; Loss QUESTION TO ANNE WALDMAN AFTER BEING INTERVIEWED BY BILL Last Line: Joanne kyger is 'ok' Subject(s): Grief; Loss RAIN Last Line: Shooting their big bodies out %into the air %fall 1971 %bolinas RECENTLY First Line: Recently, this life of mine, likes to stay 'home' more Last Line: One hundred percent pure Subject(s): Grief; Loss RELAX THY HEAD Last Line: I go to get the velvet seat %ande heater Subject(s): Grief; Loss REPLACEMENT BUDDHAS' First Line: What do all those buddhas mean Last Line: Translucent like last night's dream Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETIREMENT' First Line: An unfamiliar warble 9 times more Last Line: Of under and over tones Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETURN TO THAT FAMILIAR Last Line: The quail love to eat %so much Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETURNING HOME First Line: Great to be back to beauty Last Line: Lone when the story gets going. Hang on Subject(s): Grief; Loss ROBIN BLASER'S OLD PLASTER OF PARIS Last Line: Now residing in our back guest shed Subject(s): Grief; Loss SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 First Line: White sheen on open bolinas ridge top Last Line: Gleaming, silver, white, happy birthday SATURDAY FULL MOON SEPTEMBER First Line: I seem to have paid $40 for half a lid of grass Last Line: Reassurance of a good time SATURDAY NIGHT CHICKEN First Line: You are empty at this moment Last Line: More than enough Subject(s): Grief; Loss SAYING THINGS LIKE, IF YOU COULD ONLY Last Line: And I wish all well %I do, I really do Subject(s): Grief; Loss SCHOOL FOR FLOWERS First Line: Gold nasturtium - %five petals Last Line: To one who is on her journey %outward Subject(s): Grief; Loss SELF LOATHING & SELF PITY Last Line: Away, maybe %a robbery Subject(s): Grief; Loss SELF PORTRAIT First Line: Ere I grow over prissy groves Last Line: Once more in heaven Subject(s): Grief; Loss SEND SOME KIND OF SIGN AT LEAST' First Line: Nothing matters. You do not matter, you are not Last Line: Be so good, am I recognized? Subject(s): Grief; Loss SEPTEMBER First Line: The grasses are light brown Last Line: And whose skin is made dusky by stars Subject(s): Grief; Loss SHARP KNIFE AND THE THE SOFT NIGHT IS GONE First Line: The raccoons last night sounded Last Line: See the lights %come on again Variant Title(s): Shark Knife And The Soft Night Is Gon Subject(s): Grief; Loss SHE COMES UP Last Line: From the lungs and the stomach %bellowing to be free.' SILVER CITY OVERLAY First Line: The past has vanished Last Line: Each day to take the path SMALL FIELD OF TALL GOLDEN HEAVY GRASS Last Line: The boundless waves of bliss SNAPSHOT FOR LEW WELCH; 25 YEARS LATER First Line: Hold on to the bright Last Line: White furry rump Subject(s): Grief; Loss SNOW FALL First Line: On green leaves %eye is twitching quite dreadfully Last Line: And pity I have in my heart Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Loss; Seasons SO, WELL, NOW, YOU'VE GOT IT Last Line: New york school stuck on their typewriters Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOLSTICE First Line: Just living in the dark time night time Last Line: Onto the back of time waving Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOME CHOICE First Line: With joanne it's the fact that she has Last Line: This really interesting and colloquial way in the woods.' Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOME FRIVOLITY First Line: Crazed the baby tape cassette Last Line: Distinctly piqued, mostly graceful Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Grief; Loss SOMEWHERE YOU CAN FIND REFERENCE Last Line: Who hung around while odysseus was abroad SONG IN THE ROPE Last Line: And can hardly blame our follies to the breeze. %february 1960 %somewhere in the pacific SPECIALLY FOR YOUR EYES Last Line: Calm the torrent of breathing Subject(s): Grief; Hiking; Loss STEALING THE RELIGIOUS RELIC First Line: Why was it so important to steal it away form the family Last Line: Spotlight shows the passionate couple in a yabyum embrace Subject(s): Grief; Loss STEW First Line: California lilac, ceanothus, embraced Last Line: And looking towards the stew Subject(s): Grief; Guests; Identity; Loss STILL Last Line: When I write to you %these notes of myself STORM IS UPON US Last Line: Did I throw it out the door last night? Subject(s): Grief; Loss STORMS OF THE SEASON MAKE ME LOOSE MY REASON First Line: I never have been able to spell 'lose' correctly- Last Line: I refuse to rewrite this, but I did Subject(s): Grief; Loss STORY FROM EASTER: HE HAS RISEN First Line: There is a mouse under the sink Last Line: Buries mouse next day Subject(s): Animals; Death; Easter; Grief; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Loss; Resurrection, The STRIPES OF RED, BLACK, AND GOLD Last Line: Fire, and the excitement of ending this day Subject(s): Grief; Loss STUPIDLY INSPIRED First Line: It's true %the cricket ate the lace curtain of the studio, not Last Line: No-no, thats right, you got it right, believe it Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUDDENLY! Last Line: The same moon in the next century! Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUN IS ABOUT TO PASS Last Line: It's here the moment begins. %november 17, 1989 SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2000 First Line: Struggle through the morning Last Line: Of the day is put on Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNDAY BAY LOOKOUT CHECK UP First Line: A few party %boats looking for labor Last Line: False pacific jungle makes no sound Subject(s): Autumn; Bicycles; Grief; Loss; Seasons SUNDAY IT RAINED ALL NIGHT First Line: I dreamed liz tuomi got married all of a sudden Last Line: What do you expect from an 'I' this morning? Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNDAY'S GRACES First Line: Are at war, swimming down a river Last Line: They won't sit still Subject(s): Grief; Loss SURPRISINGLY SHE FELL BACK INTO A LINE THAT WAS SURELY Last Line: In a friendly sinuous manner. It's getting freezing Subject(s): Grief; Loss TAKE IT O MOON ON THE RUN Last Line: That's fine. For me Subject(s): Grief; Loss TAPESTRY First Line: The anticipation of one Last Line: By the life %not of this %story TAPESTRY First Line: The eye %is drawn Last Line: Implements: %shell %stone %.Peacock TAPESTRY First Line: Dealing with the detail Last Line: For bigger & better things. %4.62 %kyoto TERRACE ROADS SLUMPS INTO THE CANYON First Line: Just one access to the mesa now Last Line: Undulating, casual Subject(s): Grief; Loss THANKSGIVING First Line: On birch road is a large gathering including anselm Last Line: Both decide the other is from the c.I.A Subject(s): Grief; Loss THERE ARE SO MANY LETTERS I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE Last Line: So the wash gods will have company THEY ARE ALIVE ALTHOUGH CELADON First Line: The house is lightly lived in Last Line: But he lives here, he really lives here Subject(s): Abandonment; Emptiness; Grief; Loss THEY ARE CONSTRUCTING A CRAFT Last Line: The seaweed, wakame, changing its face to the sun THIS IS A SHORT STORY Last Line: Is outside! Dead heart, alive THIS IS THE FIRST TIME Last Line: Come out and let itself be heard %all round about THIS IS THE WAY I LIKE TO FEEL THE BEST Last Line: This is the way I like even better doing nothing at all THIS POEM IS MORE Last Line: Leaving these words for you Subject(s): Grief; Loss THIS YEAR HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER Last Line: Now, this instant after their previous form demises Subject(s): Grief; Loss THOSE THINGS WE SEE ARE IMAGES OF THE PAST First Line: From now, always, on the turning point, viewing back Last Line: What you put down is fine, precious THROW AWAY MIND First Line: What's the use etc. Do they have classes Last Line: For a diagnosis for joy, for the first fresh steps Subject(s): Grief; Loss THROWING A CRANK Last Line: Streams running out %to big ocean rush THURSDAY, 13 NOVEMBER First Line: Unified school district Last Line: State of the union TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD AGAIN First Line: You must hide yourself Last Line: Entertainment. You are camouflaged %with simplicity Subject(s): Grief; Loss TODAY'S GOT THE BRIGHT First Line: Cool awareness of fall and be careful Last Line: Nine town drunks %drinking Subject(s): Grief; Loss TOEING THE LINE First Line: So hot! %okay everybody take off your toes Last Line: The full moon leftover air Subject(s): Grief; Loss TOWN HALL READING WITH BEAT POETS First Line: Ed sanders onstage telephones william burroughs Last Line: And it's my big dusty footprint on the cover Subject(s): Grief; Loss TREE IN THE FIRE First Line: It was a young girl Last Line: The air didn't treat it right TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: We left to the east in a drive away car. Driving Last Line: Home, on the tree lined street TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: In this endless dream of parties, gordon baldwin Last Line: She says, and advocates a return to protestantism %as the middle way TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: At the corner store they could buy flowers. I was not Last Line: Full of stories and books TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: We went over to this party at a loft Last Line: I was giving a poetry recital. They smiled politely TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: I sat on a children's chair and watched Last Line: Or the attaining of intuitive wisdom TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: He at times had a way of rolling his hips Last Line: In the moon whorls TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: The vibes are too high Last Line: Out my bolinas window TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: Whether I belong one place anymore than another Last Line: Large westerner TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: Dick said this is a skidoo bridge. As Last Line: The supporting rails until they fell away into splinters TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: Gordon, for example, is tall, with dark hair, often Last Line: That's a heavy action TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: Compassion flows forth like the well of surrender Last Line: We have met the enemy and they are ours. %I love you all, %joanne TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: Peter rowan and I are walking down mesa road Last Line: I tell him bill berkson and arthur okamura %are my teachers TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: These several selves that move one self around, thousands Last Line: The bee buzz round and round TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: I have large dreams of beautiful patterns Last Line: And we are under them TRIP OUT AND FALL BACK First Line: Who even said I was a poet. Because I write Last Line: For what once was growing there. %fall 1972 TRY Last Line: Daytime mind find %teachings in many realms Subject(s): Grief; Loss TRY First Line: Very hard. See Last Line: Teachings in many realms Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUESDAY MAY 7 First Line: The wind thru a field of wild oats Last Line: Fades into early summer Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUESDAY MAY 7 Last Line: Fades into early summer TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, '87 First Line: Finest - first rain Last Line: Over that little silver beach Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1969: BOLINAS First Line: It was a beautiful golden day Last Line: And now I am looking forward %to washing my hair TWO FOR ROBIN BLASER First Line: He is pruning the privet Last Line: Which look real enough in the damp late morning air Subject(s): Grief; Loss UNDER THE BARK IS INDIAN WRITING First Line: On the francisco mesa Last Line: Under the bark is indian writing Subject(s): Grief; Loss UP MY COAST First Line: First, there were the first people Last Line: For now they could see UP MY COAST First Line: Moon man, coyote man, and lizard man made the people Last Line: When they die, they better stay dead UP MY COAST First Line: Robin brought the fire. He traveled Last Line: Just look under his chin UP MY COAST First Line: Coyote was sitting on top of sonoma peak Last Line: All over the land UP MY COAST First Line: Coyote man brought the big clam Last Line: You're as white and mean as a white man UP MY COAST First Line: When people die their ghost crosses the ocean Last Line: But you can hear them UTMOST DISARRAY Last Line: Out of %my way VALENTINE First Line: Valentine' is flat on his back being hurt Last Line: Hummingbird looking %for nectar, dead flowers %after frost Subject(s): Grief; Jealousy; Loss; Love; Relationships VIEW NORTH First Line: Back dropped %blue-grey clouds Last Line: Low tide, windless Subject(s): Grief; Loss VIOLIN PLAYS A SPRIGHTLY 10 NOTE THEME First Line: Practicing footwork for the tennis court Last Line: If not puzzled Subject(s): Grief; Loss VISIT TO MAYA LAND First Line: I dreamed I went to see the officials Last Line: That is how I can play %the flute today VISIT TO MAYA LAND First Line: Just not too far away, the dreams Last Line: The land's dreamy espanol VISIT TO MAYA LAND First Line: My lord %I, joanne Last Line: Take me out, take me out VISIT TO MAYA LAND First Line: The cross is an entrance to the other side Last Line: Into ash, how fast! %all this happens VISIT TO MAYA LAND First Line: After the flood only one woman is left, with this dog Last Line: Who is the first ladino VISIT TO MAYA LAND First Line: Well then... %and now Last Line: And get this right now VISIT TO MAYA LAND: HELLOOOOOOOOOO First Line: Are you here now? Last Line: Breathing the gods, getting the goods VISIT TO MAYA LAND: LORD JESUS CHRIST First Line: In the holy name of my lord Last Line: Holy fathers, holy mothers, my lord VISIT TO MAYA LAND: LORD JESUS CHRIST First Line: Have their spirits commenced to return? Last Line: That you may watch over us VISIT TO MAYA LAND: LORD JESUS CHRIST First Line: We look at each other together Last Line: Our moon, the mother, and I VISIT TO MAYA LAND: MARIAN LOPEZ CALLIXTO'S STORY First Line: In the time of the ancients Last Line: One part man, one part woman WAITING First Line: Over the lilacs won't he come home Last Line: And the moon over head WAITING AGAIN Last Line: As if they were strings of a harp %spring, 1960 %kyoto WAKE UP First Line: Wake up this morning and gingerly open the door Last Line: In the whole of clear new space %for you Subject(s): Grief; Loss WATCHING TV First Line: Ahoy! Electronic nightmare ... Last Line: With tiny frightful screams Subject(s): Grief; Loss WE ARE ALL TWENTY-THREE, 1957 First Line: We're all 23, 1957. The lantz dresses Last Line: She's an innocent, she really means the bread Subject(s): Grief; Loss WE ARE STRONG Last Line: Was this a test? Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Loss; Sickness WEDDING First Line: Young pine tips & forgwet-me-nots Last Line: Cow parsnips hercules plant %lupine Subject(s): Grief; Loss WEEKEND First Line: 11 o'clock on a fog Last Line: Watching for the red gold line of morning to rise Subject(s): Grief; Loss WELL YOU KNOW Last Line: If you know what I mean Variant Title(s): Well, You Kno Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT I WANTED TO SAY Last Line: I am everybody Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT IS ONE TO DO...WITH WHAT ONE...PERCEIVES...AS ACTUALITY First Line: I dunno %a mirror look today say Last Line: Today in muted light greens, warm browns and rose of fall again Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT IS UNUSUAL IN THIS COLD FRESHNESS OF HANGING First Line: The light lavender sharpness of cloth Last Line: I'm not going to kiss and tell are you crazy? Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT STARTS OUT AS A HALLOWEEN BUDDHIST LOVE POEM FOR JOHN D First Line: It takes so long to do things. For example Last Line: Was definitely accepted in my backyard, and I wanted more of it Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT WAS THAT? SOME FINE LINES FOR YOU First Line: Spiders, on light blue paisley Last Line: To learn. Being sentimentally engaged Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHATEVER IT TAKES' First Line: I don't 'get' ideas Last Line: Before it falls on your house WHEN I STEP THROUGH THE DOOR Last Line: And in the stillness seeds popping WHEN I USED TO FOCUS Last Line: This day's sweet drifting. The fog out to sea, the wind WHEN I WAS WELL INTO BEING SAVORED Last Line: Oh lord, the possible %bells ringing, to bring me out of here Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHEN PHILIP WHALEN HAD HEART SURGERY First Line: Dreaming, a lot of us are lying down together. Philip Last Line: He answers, how're you doing, you ok? Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHILST THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDS GUZZLE RED WINE First Line: And the dear companion climbs the tree Last Line: For the equinox Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHY DID SHE ASK US TO WRITE THIS WAY ANYWAY THE MOOD MOVES First Line: Why do we even practice this craft while the radio is on Last Line: Homage to kerouac Subject(s): Grief; Loss WIDE MIND First Line: Occupies a wide mind, a wide consciousness Last Line: I was thinking the same thing.' Subject(s): Grief; Loss WINDOW LEDGE First Line: Tiny light grey moth Last Line: Light grey moth Subject(s): Grief; Loss WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: 1977 First Line: I've had this dream before Last Line: Times to sit with the tidings WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: APRIL 17 First Line: Beauty stands back Last Line: Over, over here wet %pacific %cruising WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: APRIL 30 First Line: Cats stretched out before $50 worth of propane Last Line: Bhagavan das tones thru noon and after WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: AUGUST 1 First Line: Bruised, I am totally bruised full moon Last Line: Is this heaven or hell or summer camp %where all is well WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: AUGUST 16 First Line: Get over it or get under Last Line: From you smile and feel %ok after while WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: AUGUST 9 First Line: No where but here Last Line: With tomatoes or not WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: DECEMBER 20 First Line: Warm grey overcast and rushing winds Last Line: Time is a nice thing to go through WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: FEBRUARY 14 First Line: Tuesday morning on evergreen Last Line: In the teeny trembling world WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: FEBRUARY 15 First Line: Want to go in dream space go Last Line: Of middle afternoon wandering WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: FEBRUARY 16 First Line: Bell time %who are these nameless men! Last Line: Yeah, off into the raptures WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: JULY 21 First Line: Yesterday the heron covers Last Line: Top, buddha in the front seat WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 1 First Line: At the bookstore Last Line: And I'm going to do that WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 15 First Line: Hello nice %moon face reverie Last Line: And over again in the day down the street and up again WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 2 First Line: Green tara you mysterious adventurer Last Line: I'll go and let the cold unfold WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 23 First Line: I love! Today Last Line: The wonderful focus of you WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 24 First Line: Inside rainy book day Last Line: I'm never going to say %last night again WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 25 First Line: Echoes of the many corridors Last Line: The wonderful focus of you WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MARCH 3 First Line: Some kind of sleeping form some kind Last Line: The diamond bracelet makes its light WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MAY 11 First Line: This day blooms auspiciously Last Line: Unlimited and unceasing like the sky WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MAY 2 First Line: At 2, good lord Last Line: Of the ocean on my way to shore towards you WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: MORE ON THURSDAY First Line: And then not so much more Last Line: Leap into the crazy arms of the impassionata utterly consumed WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: NOVEMBER 5 First Line: A preserver, a taker care of Last Line: Sink into the great %peacock graced bower WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: OCTOBER 11 First Line: Oh well, it's a grey day. I paid all my Last Line: Of the new season WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: SEPTEMBER 15 First Line: Oh this visage Last Line: After six's rising %coastal bands of fog WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: SEPTEMBER 5 First Line: September monday labor day Last Line: Line in pine tree %go home alone WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU: WATERSHED AND COSMOS STILL THIS APRIL 7 First Line: I am the bodhisattva Last Line: On this side again, my friend %we meet again WOODEN WALLS Last Line: Outside the door I'll walk for wild iris %today away YESTERDAY WHEN DIANA DROPS ME OFF ON EVERGREEN Last Line: That's who he's interested in Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU BELIEVE THIS STASH OF WRITING IS 'SCHOLARLY'? Last Line: A heart-stopping glimpse of nature's larger grazer? %you fence it in Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WRITE POETRY YOU FIND Last Line: Do I mean perfection? Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU LIKE IT HUH? YOU LIKE THAT DULCET STUFF Last Line: Breath of air. See you Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU MURMUR 'EARTH' Last Line: A return to this continuous story Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Loss YOU? Last Line: Paramita. 'poetry is about continuing poetry'. Look look %look quickly YOU? First Line: Was that you whistling for me, the snake in the shower? Last Line: Look quickly Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOUR HEART IS FINE First Line: Your heart is fine feeling the widest Last Line: In the mutual air %awake without defect Subject(s): Grief; Loss YUPPY WITTGENSTEINS ARISE! First Line: And sleep again the puzzle Last Line: Rise upon its occasiona and all our normal body functions Subject(s): Grief; Loss Snyder, Gary Poet's Biography 561 poems available by this author 316 First Line: Naturally tender, flesh and such Last Line: The thought of pleasure pleasing flesh and bone 7. IV. 64 First Line: Up at dawn Last Line: Marbled grease and cream 7: VII First Line: I can't look out over cities without thinking of carpenters, plumbers Last Line: Lead along water, your arm rises and falls, you break through things %as they are A WALK Poem Text First Line: Sunday the only day we don't work Subject(s): Nature ABOVE PATE VALLEY Poem Text First Line: We finished clearing the last / section of rail by noon Subject(s): Wilderness ABOVE PATE VALLEY First Line: We finished clearing the last %section of rail by noon Last Line: Of dynamite. %ten thousand years Subject(s): Wilderness ACROSS LAMARCK COL First Line: Descending hillsides in Last Line: Give, and give, and give, and %take AFFLUENCE First Line: Under damp layers of pine needles Last Line: Paying the price somebody didn't pay AFLOAT Poem Text First Line: Floating in a tiny boat Subject(s): Geology; Mythology AFLOAT First Line: Floating in a tiny boat Last Line: In the tiny skin boat Subject(s): Geology; Mythology AFTER T'AO CH'IEN First Line: Swiftly the years, beyond recall' AFTER THE CHINESE First Line: She looked like a fairy AFTER THE TYPHOON First Line: Rain whipped up the umbrella Subject(s): Typhoons AFTER WORK First Line: The shack and a few trees Last Line: As it grows dark %drinking wine AGED TAMBA TEMPLE PLUM TREE SONG First Line: Firewood under the eaves Last Line: Flap up together ALABASTER First Line: The leather fringes %swing on the thighs Last Line: Edie's alabaster breasts ALL OVER THE DRY GRASSES Poem Text First Line: Motorburn, oil sump dirt smell Subject(s): Americans; United States; America ALL OVER THE DRY GRASSES First Line: Motorburn, oil sump dirt smell Last Line: Wrappt in wild iris %leaves Subject(s): Americans; United States ALL THROUGH THE RAINS First Line: That mare stood in the field Last Line: In the shade of the down %eucalyptus on the hill AN OFFERING FOR TARA Poem Text First Line: Have you seen my companion Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ANASAZI First Line: Anasazi, %anasazi, %tucked up in clefts in the cliffs Last Line: Rock lip home, %anasazi APRIL First Line: I lay on my back ARCTIC MIDNIGHT TWILIGHT COOL HORTH BREEZE WITH LOW CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: Green mountain walls in blowing cloud Variant Title(s): Daylight All Day Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ARCTIC MIDNIGHT TWILIGHT COOL HORTH BREEZE WITH LOW CLOUDS First Line: Green mountain walls in blowing cloud Last Line: A mountain sheep Variant Title(s): Daylight All Da Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ARKTOS First Line: Sighing, bursting: steam -- sulfur -- lava Last Line: The great she bear' ARTS COUNCIL MEETS IN EUREKA First Line: We held a meeting in eureka AS FOR POETS Poem Text AS FOR POETS Last Line: Is seen from all sides, %everywhere, %at once Subject(s): Environment; Poetry And Poets AT FIVE A.M. OFF THE NORTH COAST OF SUMATRA Last Line: The ship found its course and climbed back to full speed %and went on AT MAPLE BRIDGE First Line: Men are mixing gravel and cement AT TOWER PEAK First Line: Every tan rolling meadow will turn into housing AT WHITE RIVER ROADHOUSE IN THE YUKON Last Line: To see the car some gas AT WHITE RIVER ROADHOUSE IN THE YUKON Last Line: To sell the car some gas AT WHITE RIVER ROADHOUSE IN THE YUKON ATTHIS, SELS. AUGUST ON SOURDOUGH, A VISIT FROM DICK BREWER First Line: You hitched a thousand miles Last Line: Me back to my mountain -- and so far, far, west AVOCADO First Line: The dharma is like an avocado Last Line: It shoots out thru the %fingers-- %gets away AXE HANDLES Poem Text First Line: One afternoon the last week in april Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets AXE HANDLES First Line: One afternoon the last week in april Last Line: How we go on Subject(s): Axes BAKERS CABIN ON BOONE'S FERRY ROAD First Line: Frogs all night BALLAD OF ROLLING HEADS First Line: Here's the last drunk song I'll sing BATH First Line: Washing kai in the sauna Last Line: Come out from the bath Subject(s): Saunas BEAR First Line: Kai was alone by the pond in the dusk. He heard Last Line: The whole thing tipped over, no %honey, no larvae, no bees, %but somewhere, a bear BEAR MOTHER First Line: She veils herself Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BED IN THE SKY First Line: Motorcycle strums -- the empty streets Last Line: Feels our baby turn BEDROCK Poem Text First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BEDROCK First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite Last Line: We laugh %and grieve Subject(s): Environment BENEATH MY HAND AND EYE THE DISTANT HILLS. YOUR BODY First Line: What my hand follows on your body Last Line: We' learn the flower burning, %outward, from 'below.' BERRY FEAST First Line: Fur the color of mud, the smooth loper Last Line: Dead city in dry summer, %where berries grow BERRY TERRITORY First Line: Under dead leaves tanya finds a tortoise Last Line: Wreathing bodies -- wild -- %some home BIRTH OF THE SHAMAN First Line: #name? BLACK MESA MINE #1 First Line: Wind dust yellow cloud swirls Last Line: Gleaming in the windy april sun BLACK-TAILED HARE First Line: A grizzled black-eyed jackrabbit showed me Last Line: Do it for us %said the rabbit Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BLUE SKY First Line: Eastward from here Last Line: Where the eagle that flies out of sight %flies Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BOAT OF A BILLION YEARS Poem Text First Line: The boat of a million years Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BOAT OF A BILLION YEARS First Line: The boat of a million years Last Line: We are led by dolphins toward morning Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BODHISATTVAS First Line: Some clap hands, some throw flowers BOMB TEST First Line: The fish float belly-up, for real BOWS TO DROUTH First Line: Driest summer, %the hose snakes under the mulch Last Line: At the base of an apple Subject(s): Farm Life BUBBS CREEK HAIRCUT Poem Text First Line: High ceilinged and the double mirrors, the Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BUBBS CREEK HAIRCUT First Line: High ceilinged and the double mirrors, the Last Line: Your bubbs creek haircut, boy.' Subject(s): Geology; Mythology BUILDING Poem Text First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; History; Historians BUILDING First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution Last Line: Sharp tools, good design Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; History BURNED OUT First Line: An ancient incense cedar stump to burn BURNING ISLAND First Line: O wave god who broke through me today Last Line: At new moon on the crater %this summer BURNING THE SMALL DEAD Last Line: Deneb, altair %windy fire BURNING: 17 First Line: The text %sourdough mountain called a fire in Last Line: The sun is but a morning star BURNING: 9 First Line: Night here, a covert Last Line: To a heart's content beating on stumps' BUT YE SHALL DESTROY THEIR ALTARS, Poem Text BUT YE SHALL DESTROY THEIR ALTARS, Last Line: & nobody gets hurt Subject(s): Troy BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS Poem Text First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Last Line: We could live on this earth %without clothes or tools! Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls CALCIUM First Line: The doe munches on rotten cow-skull CALL OF THE WILD First Line: The heavy old man in his bed at night Last Line: But it's not true CANYON WREN First Line: I look up at the cliffs Last Line: Here and gone, %to purify our ears Subject(s): Geology; Mythology CARTAGENA Poem Text First Line: Rain and thunder beat down and flooded the streets Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CARTAGENA First Line: Rain and thunder beat down and flooded the streets Last Line: And got back to the ship, dawn came, %we were far out at sea Subject(s): Native Americans CHANGE OF STRAW First Line: Flickering eye CHANGING DIAPERS Poem Text First Line: How intelligent he looks Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer CHANGING DIAPERS First Line: How intelligent he looks Last Line: You and me -- and geronimo %are men Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer CHANNELLED SCABLANDS First Line: Asleep on an eight foot strip of grass CHARMS First Line: The beauty of naked or half-naked %women Last Line: Enchants, and thus %charms CHION-IN First Line: Hot blue CIRCUMAMBULATING ARUNACHALA First Line: For centuries sadhus live and die Last Line: Female bellies, %centuries old CIRCUMAMBULATION OF MT. TAMALPAIS First Line: Walking up and around the long ridge of tamalpais, 'bay Last Line: Rings, right in the parking lot Subject(s): Geology; Mythology CONTROL BURN First Line: What the indians %here %used to do, was Last Line: When it belonged to the indians %before COOL AROUND THE FIRE First Line: Drink black coffee from a thermos Last Line: Smoke rises straight and calm %still and cool COULD SHE SEE THE WHOLE REAL WORLD WITH HER GHOST BREAST First Line: A woman smells like fresh-plowed ground' Last Line: Once a bear gets hooked on garbage there's no cure.' COVERS THE GROUND Poem Text First Line: Down the great central valley's Subject(s): Geology; Mythology COVERS THE GROUND First Line: Down the great central valley's Last Line: Us and our stuff just covering the ground Subject(s): Geology; Mythology COYOTE MAN, MR. PRESIDENT, & THE GUNFIGHTERS First Line: Mr. President was fascinated by gunfighters. Expert gunfighters COYOTE VALLEY SPRING First Line: Cubs %tumble in the damp leaves Last Line: In tiny tule boats CRASH First Line: An old man riding his slow bike CROSS-LEGG'D First Line: Cross-legg'd under the low tent roof Last Line: We two be here what comes Subject(s): Geology; Love; Mythology DANCE First Line: Izanami %gave birth to rocks, trees, rivers, mountains, grass Last Line: How far did she push her skirt down? Subject(s): Geology; Mythology DAZZLE First Line: The dazzle, the seduction the %design Last Line: The roots are at work %unseen DEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD First Line: How did a great red-tailed hawk Last Line: The dead by the side of the road Subject(s): Nature DILLINGHAM, ALASKA, THE WILLOW TREE BAR First Line: Drills chatter full of mud and compressed air Last Line: Of wrecking the world DOGS, SHEEP, COWS, GOATS Last Line: Deep in the bushes, crouch! %at the thorny stalks DRAGONFLY First Line: Dragonfly %dead on the snow Last Line: In a mountain pool %before you died DULLNESS IN FEBRUARY: JAPAN First Line: The high-class families DUSTY BRACES First Line: O you ancestors %lumber schooners Last Line: --your sea roving %tree hearted son EARRINGS DANGLING AND MILES OF DESERT First Line: Sagebrush (artemisia) is of the sunflower family Last Line: I will think of you in my other poems Subject(s): Geology; Mythology EARTH VERSE Poem Text First Line: Wide enough to keep you looking Subject(s): Geology; Mythology EARTH VERSE First Line: Wide enough to keep you looking Last Line: Old enough to give you dreams Subject(s): Geology; Mythology EGG First Line: Kai twists %rubs 'bellybutton' Last Line: It all gathers, %humming, %in the egg ELK TRAILS First Line: Ancient, world-old elk paths ELUSIAD First Line: Fair clio, of the muses most severe ELWHA RIVER First Line: I was a girl waiting by the roadside for my boyfriend to come in his Last Line: There are no redwoods north of southern %curry county, oregon Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ENDLESS STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Clearing the mind and sliding in Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ENDLESS STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS First Line: Clearing the mind and sliding in Last Line: Streams and mountains never stay the same Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ENFORCEMENT First Line: Low planes ENGINE ROOM, S.S. SAPPA CREEK First Line: Cool northern waters ENGLISH LESSONS AT THE BOILER COMPANY First Line: The western hills curve down from mt. Atago EPISTEMOLOGICAL FANCIES First Line: My friend hoodlatch used to ask ETHNOBOTANY First Line: In june two oak fell Last Line: Taste all, and hand the knowledge down EVERYBODY LYING ON THEIR STOMACHS, HEAD TOWARD THE CANDLE First Line: The corrugated roof %brooms and fades night-long to Last Line: Half-open -- on eternity EXCLAMATIONS GONE TO THE TWIN BREASTS OF MAYA First Line: Terence! Ovid! Nothing is satisfactory FACTS First Line: 1. 92% of japan's three million ton import of soybeans comes from the u.S. Last Line: 10. Our primary source of food is the sun FAREWELL TO BURNING ISLAND First Line: A white bird lands on the ship FEAR NOT First Line: Will dallas grow, or wither Last Line: Who's there? %no one who FEATHERED ROBE First Line: On a clear spring windless day FELIX BARAN Last Line: Soldiers of discontent.' FENCE POSTS First Line: It might be that horses would be useful Last Line: Penny wise pound foolish either way Subject(s): Environment; Trees FINDING THE SPACE IN THE HEART Poem Text First Line: I first saw it in the sixties Subject(s): Geology; Mythology FINDING THE SPACE IN THE HEART First Line: I first saw it in the sixties Last Line: Tip drawn to a point, %lifts away Subject(s): Geology; Mythology FIRE IN THE HOLE First Line: Squatting a day in the sun Last Line: Hands and arms and shoulders %free FIRING First Line: Bitter blue fingers Last Line: Are dead tongues FIRST LANDFALL ON TURTLE ISLAND First Line: Crossing eastward the pacific on the washington bear Subject(s): Landfall FLOWING First Line: Head doused under the bronze Last Line: Making this poem Subject(s): Geology; Mythology FLUNG FROM DEMONIC WOMBS Last Line: I'd head toward shore FOR A FAR-OUT FRIEND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Because I once beat you up Subject(s): Friendship FOR A FAR-OUT FRIEND First Line: Because I once beat you up Last Line: You'll ever give %or get Subject(s): Friendship FOR A STONE GIRL AT SANCHI First Line: Half asleep on the cold grass Last Line: And it lasted forever FOR ALAN WATTS First Line: He blazed out a new path for all of us FOR ALL First Line: Ah to be alive Last Line: With joyful interpenetration for all FOR BERKELEY First Line: City of buds and flowers FOR EXAMPLE First Line: There was an old dutch lady FOR GEORGE LEIGH-MALLORY First Line: Escaping cambridge FOR JOHN CHAPPELL First Line: Over the arafura sea, the china sea Last Line: Now be clay in the ground FOR LEW WELCH IN A SNOWFALL First Line: Snowfall in march Last Line: Where we still laugh and cook, %watching snow FOR NOTHING First Line: Earth a flower %a phlox on the steep Last Line: Snow-trickle, feldspar, dirt FOR THE BOY WHO WAS DODGER POINT LOOKOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Poem Text First Line: The thin blue smoke of our campfire Subject(s): Mountain Climbing FOR THE BOY WHO WAS DODGER POINT LOOKOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO First Line: The thin blue smoke of our campfire Last Line: Three elk, helps keep me sane Subject(s): Mountain Climbing FOR THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR THE CHILDREN First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Last Line: Stay together %learn the flowers %go light Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers FOR THE WEST First Line: Europe, %your red-haired Last Line: Little girl was singing, %all those years FORDING THE FLOODED GOLDIE RIVER First Line: Clamped to the log by the current Last Line: I fought death: %got across it %alone Subject(s): Rivers FOREIGNERS First Line: Tall %yellow teeth FOREST FIRE AT ANANDA First Line: A skunk walks out of a thicket FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: A SPRING NIGHT IN SHOKOKU-JI Poem Text First Line: Eight years ago this may Subject(s): Japan; Zen Buddhism; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: A SPRING NIGHT IN SHOKOKU-JI First Line: Eight years ago this may Last Line: Naked under a summer cotton dress Subject(s): Japan; Zen Buddhism FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: AN AUTUMN MORNING IN SKOKOKU-JI Poem Text First Line: Last night watching the pleiades Subject(s): Anger; Pleiades (constellation) FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: AN AUTUMN MORNING IN SKOKOKU-JI First Line: Last night watching the pleiades Last Line: The first time I have %ever seen them close Subject(s): Anger; Pleiades (constellation) FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE Poem Text First Line: You said, that october Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE First Line: You said, that october Last Line: Or have done what my %karma demands Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST Poem Text First Line: I slept under rhododendron Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST First Line: I slept under rhododendron Last Line: I think back when I had you Subject(s): Camping; Oregon FOXTAIL PINE First Line: Bark smells like pineapple: jeffries Last Line: And call this other thing, a %foxtail pine FROM BELOW First Line: Turkey buzzards wheeling FRONT LINES Poem Text First Line: The edge of the cancer Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FRONT LINES First Line: The edge of the cancer Last Line: And here we must draw %our line Subject(s): Environment FRUIT First Line: More sour, more bitter than lemon GAIA Poem Text First Line: Deep blue sea baby Last Line: Ah. Subject(s): Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Earth; World GATHA FOR ALL THREATENED BEINGS First Line: Ah power that swirls us together GEESE GONE BEYOND First Line: In the cedar canoe gliding and paddling GEN First Line: Gen %little frown %buried in her breast Last Line: Gen patted-on-the-head by kai, %don't cry GENJI SONG First Line: I once had a gray brindle tomcat named genji GEOLOGICAL MEDITATION First Line: Rocks suffer GETTING IN THE WOOD First Line: The sour smell, %blue stain Last Line: Death-topple of elderly oak. %four cords GETTING THERE First Line: Padma sambhava, the furry tail GO ROUND First Line: Plunging donkey --puberty devi Last Line: Steppt up on the %merry-go- %round GOOFING AGAIN Last Line: Now I have to paint the wall again %& salvage only from it all a poem GRAND ENTRY First Line: The many american flags GREAT MOTHER First Line: Not all those who pass Last Line: To see what sort of savages they were GREEN LIMB HANDS IN THE CROTCH Last Line: That can't be left out in the rain HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Earth / loves to love Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Tangled in fall flood streams Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature HALF-KNOWN STARS IN THE DAWN SKY, FR. ATTHIS HAY FOR THE HORSES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He had driven half the night Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY FOR THE HORSES First Line: He had driven half the night Last Line: And damnit, that's just what %I've gone and done Subject(s): Farm Life HE SHOT ARROWS, BUT NOT AT BIRDS PERCHING First Line: The governor came to visit in the mountains Last Line: Striking deep in straw bales by the barn HEIFER CLAMBERS UP First Line: A heifer clambers up %nighthawk goes out %horses Last Line: Fat %with the baby happy land HEMP First Line: Gravel-bars, riverbanks, scars Last Line: We sit and wait, for days, %and pray for rain HER LIFE BLEW THROUGH MY BODY AND AWAY, FR. ATTHIS HIGASHI HONGWANJI First Line: In a quiet dusty corner Last Line: & floats a grey shale %mountain over the town HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION First Line: A life spent seeking it HILLS OF HOME First Line: Today is like no day that HISTORY MUST HAVE A START First Line: Took all day to find it HITCH HAIKU Poem Text First Line: They didn't hire him Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States HITCH HAIKU First Line: They didn't hire him Last Line: Steep travel a- %head Subject(s): West (u.s.) HOME ON THE RANGE First Line: Bison rumble-belly HOP, SKIP, AND JUMP First Line: The curv'd lines toe-drawn, round cornerd squares Last Line: To do the hop, skip, and jump Subject(s): Play HOUSECLEANING IN KYOTO First Line: This red washrag HOW DO YOU SHAPE AN AXE HANDLE? HOW POETRY COMES TO ME First Line: It comes blundering over the HOW ZEN MASTERS ARE LIKE MATURE HERRING First Line: So few become full grown HUDSONIAN CURLEW First Line: The end of a desert track--turnaround Last Line: Pacing - and glancing - around HUMP BACKED FLUTE PLAYER Last Line: Of pinyon %pine Subject(s): Geology; Mythology HUNTING: 11 First Line: Songs for a four-crowned dancing hat Last Line: That was southeast, they say HUNTING: 12 First Line: Out the greywolf valley %in late afternoon Last Line: Smell of the mountains still on me. %none stung HUNTING: 15 First Line: First day of the world Last Line: He suffered in them all HUNTING: 16 First Line: How rare to be born a human being? Last Line: All but coyote I CAN'T STAND THESE BIRD-SONGS Last Line: Climbing the southern slope of cold mountain I SEE OLD FRIEND DAN ELLSBERG ON TV IN A MOUNTAIN First Line: His familiar youthful face I WENT INTO THE MAVERICK BAR Poem Text I WENT INTO THE MAVERICK BAR Last Line: To the real work, to %'what is to be done.' Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders IN THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN First Line: Skinny kids in shorts get cups Last Line: Did I really have to kill my sick, sick cat IN THE NIGHT, FRIEND First Line: Peach blossom %cling peaches %freestone peach Last Line: Ss washington bear %west coast bound IN TOKYO: AT LOOSE ENDS First Line: All those books and those clothes INSTRUCTIONS Poem Text First Line: Fuel filler cap Subject(s): Geology; Mythology INSTRUCTIONS First Line: Fuel filler cap Last Line: Or, not even one Subject(s): Geology; Mythology IT First Line: Cloud--cloud--cloud-- -- hurls Last Line: Feeds the brain IT (READING BLAKE IN A COWSHED - ISLAND IN EAST CHINA SEA) First Line: Cloud - cloud - cloud hurls %up and on over Last Line: Feeds the brain IT PLEASES First Line: Far above the dome Last Line: The world does what it pleases JACKRABBIT Poem Text First Line: Jackrabbit / black-tailed hare Subject(s): Geology; Mythology JACKRABBIT First Line: Jackrabbit %black-tailed hare Subject(s): Geology; Mythology JEMEZ PUEBLO RING First Line: Lost in the cracks of the walls or floors Last Line: Those corn-growing black-haired villagers %are still there, making such rings, %I'm told-- JOE HILL FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: The copper bosses shot you joe' Subject(s): Hill, Joe (1879-1915); Labor Unions; Hillstrom, Joseph; Hagglund, Joel JOE HILL FRAGMENT First Line: The copper bosses shot you joe' Subject(s): Hill, Joe (1879-1915); Labor Unions JOURNEYS Poem Text First Line: Genji caught a gray bird, fluttering. It Subject(s): Geology; Mythology JOURNEYS First Line: Genji caught a gray bird, fluttering. It Last Line: Way to the back country.' Subject(s): Geology; Mythology KAI, TODAY First Line: A teen-age boy in training pants Last Line: As they fall back, %arcing %into her -- ) %sea KINE First Line: Eight cows KISIBATON First Line: Beat-up datsun idling in the road Last Line: Is what we came to see KNOW First Line: The trees know KUSIWOQQOBI First Line: Did it come from Last Line: From the dust, from the breeze KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG Poem Text First Line: Beautiful little children Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG First Line: Beautiful little children Last Line: Wild babies %in the ferns and plums and weeds Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters KYOTO VACATION First Line: Down from the country, old train bogies KYOTO: MARCH First Line: A few light flakes of snow Last Line: And grandchildren that they love LATE OCTOBER CAMPING IN THE SAWTOOTHS First Line: Sunlight climbs the snowpeak LATE SNOW & LUMBER STRIKE OF THE SUMMER OF FIFTY-FOUR First Line: Whole towns shut down hitching the coast road, only gypos Last Line: And stand in lines in seattle. %looking for work LINES ON A CARP First Line: Old fat fish of everlasting life LITTLE SONGS FOR GAIA First Line: Across salt marshes north of Last Line: As I fled, to write you and explain LITTLE SONGS FOR GAIA: 18. First Line: The flickers Last Line: In the cool pine breeze LIZARDS, WIND, SUNSHINE, APPLES First Line: A plane circling in the distance Last Line: A chicken pecking catfood in the kitchen LMFBR Poem Text First Line: Death himself, / (liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man LMFBR First Line: Death himself, %(liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Last Line: Of the kali-yuga %end of days Subject(s): Judgment Day LODGEPOLE PINE: THE WONDERFUL REPRODUCTIVE Last Line: Hovering over ten thousand acres %of young fir LOGGING: 10 First Line: A ghost logger wanders a shadow Last Line: The last decent carpentry %ever done by jews LOGGING: 15 First Line: Lodgepole %cone/seed waits for fire Last Line: May paint the mountains and streams %though the territory is lost' LOGGING: 8 First Line: Each dawn is clear Last Line: Taurus by nightfall LONG HAIR Poem Text First Line: Hunting season: / once every year, the deer catch human beings LONG HAIR First Line: Deer trails: %deer trails run on the side hills Last Line: And deer bound through my hair LONG HAIR First Line: Hunting season: %once every year, the deer catch human beings Last Line: This is called 'takeover from inside' Subject(s): Nature LONGITUDE 170 WEST, LATITUDE 35 NORTH First Line: This realm half sky half water LOOK BACK First Line: Twice one summer Last Line: The up and down of it %stays in my feet LOOKOUTS First Line: Perched on their bare and windy peaks LOTS OF PLAY First Line: In the way things work Last Line: The world looks ok %lots of play LOVE First Line: Women who were turned inside-out Last Line: Over and over, %sing about love LOVE ME LOVE, TIL TREES FALL FLAT, FR. ATTHIS LOW WINTER SUN MA Poem Text First Line: Hello boy Subject(s): Geology; Mythology MA First Line: Hello boy Last Line: As ever %ma Subject(s): Geology; Mythology MACAQUES IN THE SKY First Line: Walking the trail with wang ch'ing-hua, red pine, lo ch'ing Last Line: Rhesus macaque Subject(s): Geology; Mythology MAGPIE'S SONG First Line: Six a.M., %sat down on excavation gravel Last Line: Here in the mind, brother, %turquoise blue MAKINGS First Line: I watched my father's friends MANICHAEANS First Line: Our portion of fire Last Line: And keep back the cold MANZANITA First Line: Before dawn the coyotes Last Line: The bigger they seem, %'little apples' MAP First Line: A hill, a farm MARIN-AN First Line: Sun breaks over the eucalyptus Last Line: Driving men to work MARKET First Line: Heart of the city Last Line: While waiting for my wife Subject(s): Geology; Mythology MARKET: 2 First Line: Seventy-five feet hoed rows equal MEETING THE MOUNTAINS First Line: He crawls to the edge of the foaming creek MESSAGE FROM OUTSIDE First Line: I am the one who gnawed the blanket through MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT Poem Text Recitation First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Subject(s): Memory; Summer MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Last Line: Looking down for miles %through high still air Subject(s): Memory; Summer MIGRATION OF BIRDS First Line: It started just now with a hummingbird Last Line: Nesting in alaska %in six weeks MILTON BY FIRELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MILTON BY FIRELIGHT First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Last Line: On an old trail %all of a summer's day Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines And Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains MONUMENT ON OKINAWA First Line: One hundred twenty schoolgirls' MORNING STAR IS NOT A STAR Last Line: Young girls run mad with the pine bough, io MOTHER EARTH: HER WHALES Poem Text First Line: An owl winks in the shadows Subject(s): Animals MOTHER EARTH: HER WHALES First Line: An owl winks in the shadows Last Line: In the sparkling whorls %of living light Subject(s): Animals MOTHER OF THE BUDDHAS, QUEEN OF HEAVEN, MOTHER OF THE SUN First Line: Old sow in the mud Last Line: From earth to %look up at me MOUNT ST. HELENS: THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: From the doab of the williamette and the columbia, slightly higher Last Line: Crusty tincan meals all cooked by boys Subject(s): Mount Saint Helens, Washington MOUNTAIN SPIRIT First Line: Ceaseless wheel of lives Last Line: Back to the bedroll, sleep till dawn Subject(s): Geology; Mythology MYTH First Line: Fire up thunder creek and the mountain Last Line: The sun is but a morning star MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 1. SECOND SHAMAN SONG First Line: Squat in swamp shadows Last Line: Limp fish sleep in the weeds %the sun dries me as I dance MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 10. AMITABHA'S VOW First Line: If, after obtaining buddhahood, anyone in my land Last Line: We should go back %we don't MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 11 First Line: Floating of vapour from brazier MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 13 First Line: Spikes of new smell driven up nostrils Last Line: Neah bay at low tide MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 14 First Line: A skin-bound bundle of clutchings %unborn and with no place to go Last Line: Two of us, carrying packs MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 15 First Line: Stone-flake and salmon Last Line: The hot seeds steam underground %still alive MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 2 First Line: One moves continually with the consciousness MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 3. MAUDGALYAYANA SAW HELL First Line: Under the shuddering eyelid Last Line: Blooming human mind %dropping it all, and opening the eyes MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 4. MAITREYA THE FUTURE BUDDHA First Line: He's out stuck in a bird's craw Last Line: Your empty happy body %swarming in the light MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 5. JIMSON WEED First Line: Now both %being persons - alive Last Line: Imagine a dark house %blue MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 6 First Line: My clutch and your clutch Last Line: The void %gnashes its teeth MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 7 First Line: Face in the crook of her neck Last Line: At the breast of the mother of the universe MYTHS AND TEXTS: BURNING: 8. JOHN MUIR ON MT. RITTER First Line: After scanning its face again and again Last Line: Nothing at all to do MYTHS AND TEXTS: HUNTING: 1. FIRST SHAMAN SONG First Line: In the village of the dead Last Line: Watching the waterdogs %the last truck gone MYTHS AND TEXTS: HUNTING: 3. THIS POEM IS FOR BIRDS First Line: Birds in a whirl, drift to the rooftops MYTHS AND TEXTS: HUNTING: 4 First Line: The swallow-shell that eases birth MYTHS AND TEXTS: HUNTING: 6. THIS POEM IS FOR BEAR First Line: A bear down under the cliff Last Line: You couldn't hit a bear in the ass %with a handful of rice! MYTHS AND TEXTS: HUNTING: 7 First Line: All beaded with dew MYTHS AND TEXTS: HUNTING: 8. THIS POEM IS FOR DEER First Line: I dance on all the mountains Last Line: Until the deer come down to die %in pity for my pain MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14 Poem Text First Line: The groves are down Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14 First Line: The groves are down Last Line: To his eager nose Subject(s): Environment; Trees MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 3 First Line: Stood straight %holding the choker high Last Line: Hovering over ten thousand acres %of young fir MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 5 First Line: Again the ancient, meaningless N. OF COALDALE, NEVADA, A GLIMPSE THROUGH BREAK IN STORM First Line: O mother gaia Last Line: I bow in roadside gravel NANAO KNOWS First Line: Mountains, cities, all so Last Line: In and out of forests, cities, families like a fish NANSEN First Line: I found you on a rainy morning Last Line: Of mild, steady pain NET First Line: A man in a canoe NEW MOON TONGUE Poem Text First Line: Faint new moon arc, curl Subject(s): Geology; Mythology NEW MOON TONGUE First Line: Faint new moon arc, curl Last Line: Reaching tongue Subject(s): Geology; Mythology NIGHT First Line: All the dark hours everywhere repair Last Line: The first sunlight hitting the shades NIGHT HERONS First Line: Night herons nest in the cypress Last Line: Ever-fresh and lovely dawn NIGHT HIGHWAY 99 Poem Text First Line: We're on our way Subject(s): Geology; Mythology NIGHT HIGHWAY 99 First Line: We're on our way Last Line: Is no 99 Subject(s): Geology; Mythology NIGHT SONG OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Owl / calls, Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature NIGHT SONG OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN First Line: Owl %calls, Last Line: Owl %calls; %late-rising moon. Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature NO MATTER, NEVER MIND First Line: The father is the void Last Line: Gives birth to the mind NO SHOES NO SHIRT NO SERVICE First Line: Padding down the street, the Last Line: Shiva's dancing feet %(no shoes) NOOKSACK VALLEY First Line: At the far end of a trip north Last Line: Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps NORTH BEACH ALBA First Line: Waking half-drunk in a strange pad Last Line: Driving across the bridge in a beat old car to work NORTH COAST First Line: Those picnics covered with sand NOT LEAVING THE HOUSE First Line: When kai is born Last Line: Making a new world of ourselves %around this life NOW I'LL ALSO TELL WHAT FOOD Last Line: Buffaloes, mountan sheep, and turtles NUMEROUS BROKEN EGGS First Line: Ejected from such pleasuance O O WATERS First Line: O waters %wash us, me Last Line: Great %earth %sangha OFF THE TRAIL First Line: We are free to find our own way OFFERING FOR TARA First Line: Have you seen my companion Last Line: May you remain unchanged Subject(s): Geology; Mythology OIL First Line: Soft rainsqualls on the swells Last Line: Long injections of pure oil OLD BONES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Out there walking round, looking out for food Subject(s): Geology; Mythology OLD BONES First Line: Out there walking round, looking out for food Last Line: How we all prevailed Subject(s): Geology; Mythology OLD DUTCH WOMAN First Line: The old dutch woman would spend half a day Last Line: Pick their way over the snow OLD ROTTING TREE TRUNK DOWN First Line: Winding grain %of twisting outer spiral shell Last Line: Feeding that follows -- %the woodpecker's cry OLD WOMAN NATURE Poem Text OLD WOMAN NATURE Last Line: Don't be shocked, %she's heating you some soup Subject(s): Kabuki; Men; Mothers OLD WOODRAT'S STINKY HOUSE First Line: Coyote and earthmaker whirling about in the world winds Last Line: Do good things. Me, I'm traveling on.' Subject(s): Geology; Mythology ON CLIMBING THE SIERRA MATTERHORN AGAIN AFTER THIRTY-ONE First Line: Range after range of mountains Last Line: I am still in love ON OUR WAY TO KHAJURAHO First Line: On our way to %khajuraho Last Line: Crosst from hand to hand ON SAN GABRIEL RIDGES First Line: I dream of-- %soft, white, washable country Last Line: Tight and dry in scats of %fox ON VULTURE PEAK First Line: All the boys are gathered there ONCE ONLY First Line: Almost at the equator Last Line: In the center of the sky ONE SHOULD NOT TALK TO A SKILLED HUNTER ABOUT WHAT IS FORBIDDEN BY TH First Line: A gray fox, female, nine pounds three ounces Last Line: And the secret hidden deep in that ONE YEAR First Line: The hills behind %santa barbara Last Line: Today, america, japan, %one year ORCHARD First Line: Writhing, wreathing ORDERING CHILE VERDE IN GALLUP First Line: Wet lips sidewise ORIGINAL VOW First Line: Pollen, eagle down OTHER SIDE OF EACH COIN First Line: The head of a man of the ruling elite OUT OF THE SOIL AND ROCK PAINFUL ACCUMULATION OF OUR ERRORS, FR. ATTHIS PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Last Line: Ladders resting on the shaky porch Subject(s): Education; Schools PARTING WITH CLAUDE DALENBERG First Line: Why don't we get drunk PERSIMMON First Line: In a cove reaching back between ridges Last Line: The people and trees that prevail PINE RIVER First Line: From the top of matsue castle Last Line: Little villages %under snow PINE TREE TOPS First Line: In the blue night Last Line: Rabbit tracks, deer tracks, %what do we know PINES, UNDER PINES Last Line: Through the pines PIUTE CREEK First Line: One granite ridge Last Line: Cold proud eyes %of cougar or coyote %watch me rise and go PLUM PETAL FALLING POEM LEFT IN SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT First Line: I the poet gary snyder Last Line: & when pray tell, shall lookouts die POETRY IS THE EAGLE OF EXPERIENCE First Line: All the little mice of writing letters POINT REYES First Line: Sandpipers at the margin POORNESS AND THE PRIDE WE SHARED, FR. ATTHIS PRAISE FOR SICK WOMEN First Line: The female is fertile, and discipline Last Line: Crouched from sun, five days, %blood dripping through crusted thighs PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY Poem Text First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Last Line: The mind is his wife. %so be it Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer PREPOTENT First Line: Justin morgan PROFESSOR AS TRANSFORMER First Line: That ugly infant who stole sunshine PUBLIC BATH: THE BABY BOY First Line: On his back, dashed with scalding water Last Line: Inscutably %pees PUBLIC BATH: THE BATH-GIRL First Line: Getting dressed, in the mirror Last Line: Am I %different PUBLIC BATH: THE DAUGHTERS First Line: Gripping and scrubbing his two little daughters Last Line: Pink flesh in the steamy light PUBLIC BATH: THE MEN First Line: Squatting soapy and limber Last Line: Tumbled on beaches %newsreels, the %war PUBLIC BATH: THE OLD WOMAN First Line: Too fat and too old to care Last Line: Idly knocking dewy water off her bush PUBLIC BATH: THE YOUNG WOMAN First Line: Gazing vacant, drying her neck Last Line: -- next year she'll be dressing %out of sight RAIN IN THE ALLEGHANY First Line: Standing in the thunder-pouring Last Line: Stopping on our way, %in alleghany RAINBOW BODY First Line: Cicada fill up the bamboo thickets Last Line: Eyes closed, %dazzled ears RAINY SEASON First Line: Rain %a steady drip from the eaves RAVEN'S BEAK RIVER AT THE END First Line: Doab of the tatshenshini river and the alsek lake, a long spit of Last Line: Flying off alone %flying off alone %flying off alone %off alone Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature RAY WELLS, A BIG NISQUALLY, AND I Last Line: Healing and grazing in the dead white heat REAL WORK First Line: Sea-lions and birds, %sun through fog Last Line: Washing and sighing, %sliding by REGARDING WAVE First Line: The voice of the dhama Last Line: Om -- ah -- hum REMOVING THE PLATE OF THE PUMP ON THE HYDRAULIC SYSTEM First Line: Through mud, fouled nuts, black grime Last Line: At the heart %of work REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION First Line: The country surrounds the city Last Line: Comes out of the seed-syllables of mantras RIDE First Line: To %force to the furthest edge where RIDING THE HOT ELECTRIC TRAIN RIGHT IN THE TRAIL First Line: Here it is, near the house Last Line: Chew your food RIPPLES ON THE SURFACE First Line: Ripples on the surface of the water Last Line: No nature. %both together, one big empty house RIPRAP First Line: Lay down these words Last Line: All change, in thoughts, %as well as things RIVER IN THE VALLEY Poem Text First Line: We cross the sacramento river at colusa Subject(s): Rivers RIVER IN THE VALLEY First Line: We cross the sacramento river at colusa Last Line: All flowering at once, %all one place Subject(s): Rivers ROOTS First Line: Draw over and dig Last Line: Roots are strong ROUTE First Line: We didn't go so much to the south RUNNING WATER MUSIC First Line: Under the trees %under the clouds Last Line: Over blinding fine white %river sand RUNNING WATER MUSIC II First Line: Clear running stream %clear running stream Last Line: With you %in me SAPPA CREEK First Line: Old rusty-belly thing will soon be gone Last Line: Tending sick and nervous old & cranky ship SAYING FAREWELL AT THE MONASTERY AFTER HEARING THE OLD MASTE First Line: At the last turn in the path Last Line: (moss and a bit of %wild %bird-) %down SEALION, SALMON, OFFSHORE Last Line: I'll eat your corpse SEEING THE OX First Line: Brown ox SERVES First Line: A human arm SESTINA OF THE END OF THE KALPA First Line: You joyous gods, who gave mankind his culture SHARK MEAT First Line: In the night fouled the nets Last Line: To be part of this loom SHE DREAMED SHE DREAMED SHE WAS A COUGAR SHERRY IN JULY First Line: Julius caesar, cut from his mother's womb SINECURE FOR P. WHALEN First Line: Whalen, curious vulture SIX HELLS OF THE ENGINE ROOM First Line: The hot air hell of the fiddley where rails Last Line: Your hands get all sticky SIX YEARS: APRIL First Line: Firework bangs echo up in the valley Last Line: Talk in the dark, and sleep SIX YEARS: AUGUST First Line: Night -- town of lights Last Line: We sleep in the sand %and our salt SIX YEARS: DECEMBER Poem Text First Line: Three a.M. -- a far bell Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys SIX YEARS: DECEMBER First Line: Three a.M. -- a far bell Last Line: A far bell coming closer Subject(s): Monasteries SIX YEARS: ENVOY TO SIX YEARS First Line: Down in the engine room again Last Line: The belly of the ship SIX YEARS: FEBRUARY First Line: Water taps running, the sun part out Last Line: The ash pure white SIX YEARS: JANUARY First Line: The pine tree is perfect Last Line: Was once a snowy hill SIX YEARS: JULY First Line: Kicking through sasa Last Line: Naps under the tree SIX YEARS: JUNE First Line: Students listen to the tapes Last Line: & layed out on text %page and tape SIX YEARS: MARCH First Line: Up in dirt alley Last Line: & hall the windy concrete of %zojoji SIX YEARS: MAY First Line: Sitting and resting on the crest, looking far Last Line: (night ride america; thin-lipped waitress whores -- ) SIX YEARS: NOVEMBER First Line: Hoeing the hatake, pull out all the clover bulb Last Line: With the back of a sickle %stooping in gravel SIX YEARS: OCTOBER First Line: The rich have money; give to the rich Last Line: All, -- dharma kings SIX YEARS: SEPTEMBER First Line: Rucksack braced on a board, lashed tight on back Last Line: And made love in the sand SIXTH-MONTH SONG IN THE FOOTHILLS Poem Text First Line: In the cold shed sharpening saws Subject(s): Swallows SIXTH-MONTH SONG IN THE FOOTHILLS First Line: In the cold shed sharpening saws Last Line: Fly in to my shed Subject(s): Swallows SMOG SNOW ON SADDLE MOUNTAIN First Line: The only thing that can be relied on Last Line: Is the snow on kurakake mountain SOME CRITIC TRIED TO PUT ME DOWN Last Line: Ought to stick to making money SOME GOOD THINGS TO BE SAID FOR THE IRON AGE First Line: A ringing tire iron Last Line: Brush on limbs SOME LOVERS WAKE ONE DAY SONG FOR A COUGAR HIDE First Line: The fully human time is nigh SONG OF THE SLIP First Line: Slept %folded in girls Last Line: Moves in and makes home in the whole SONG OF THE TANGLE First Line: Two thigh hills hold us at the fork Last Line: Through which we push SONG OF THE TASTE First Line: Eating the living germs of grasses Last Line: Kissing the lover in the mouth of bread: %lip to lip SONGS AT CUSTER'S BATTLEFIELD First Line: Crickets and meadowlarks today SOURCE First Line: To be in %to the land Last Line: Drink deep %that black light SOURS OF THE HILLS First Line: Barbed seeds -- in double ranks Last Line: Into the wild sour SOY SAUCE Poem Text First Line: Standing on a stepladder Subject(s): Nostalgia SOY SAUCE First Line: Standing on a stepladder Subject(s): Nostalgia SPEL AGAINST DEMONS First Line: The release of demonic energies in the %name of %the people Last Line: Sphataya hum traka ham mam SPIRITS WAIT AND SING BENEATH THE LAND First Line: Under the hills the kukini gamble SPRING First Line: Bees humming SPRING First Line: Beating asphalt into highway potholes Last Line: Get back on the job SPRING SONGS First Line: Out the building's shadow STEAK First Line: Up on the bluff, the steak houses Last Line: Early morning prairie sky STILL, SHE REPROACHED ALL LANDS,' FR. ATTHIS STONE GARDEN First Line: Japan a great stone garden in the sea Last Line: A formal garden made by fire and time STOVEWOOD Poem Text First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation STOVEWOOD First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals Last Line: And stick it in a stove Subject(s): Environment; Trees STRAIGHT-CREEK -- GREAT BURN (FOR TOM AND MARTHA BURCH) First Line: Lightly, in the april mountains Last Line: They settle down. %end of poem STRAITS OF MALACCA 24 OCT 1957 First Line: Soft rain on the STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND Poem Text First Line: The hiss and flashing lights of a jet Last Line: Belongs to the twentieth century and its wars. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze SURROUNDED BY WILD TURKEYS Poem Text First Line: Little calls -- as they pass Subject(s): Turkeys SURROUNDED BY WILD TURKEYS First Line: Little calls -- as they pass Last Line: Look just like us Subject(s): Turkeys SUSTAINED YIELD First Line: Spain, italy, albania, turkey, greece SVAHA A FEMININE ENDING FOR MANTRA.' First Line: Under the lilac, svaha girl SWEAT First Line: Now I must sit naked T-2 TANKER BLUES First Line: Mind swarming with pictures, cheap magazines, drunk Last Line: Gritty earth--embraced in welded plates of perfect steel TALKING LATE WITH THE GOVERNOR ABOUT THE BUDGET First Line: Entering the midnight Last Line: Is it raining tonight at home TARGET PRACTICE First Line: No trail %can't be followed Last Line: When creeks are down %we heap stones TASTE First Line: I don't know where it went TENJIN First Line: We had ten zen monks THE BATH Poem Text First Line: Washing kai in the sauna Subject(s): Saunas THE BEAR MOTHER Poem Text First Line: She veils herself Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE BLACK-TAILED HARE Poem Text First Line: A grizzled black-eyed jackrabbit showed me Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE BLUE SKY Poem Text First Line: Eastward from here Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE CANYON WREN Poem Text First Line: I look up at the cliffs Last Line: To purify our ears Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE CIRCUMAMBULATION OF MT. TAMALPAIS Poem Text First Line: Walking up and around the long ridge of tamalpais, 'bay Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE DANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Izanami / gave birth to rocks, trees, rivers, mountains, grass Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE DEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: How did a great red-tailed hawk Subject(s): Nature THE ELWHA RIVER Poem Text First Line: I was a girl waiting by the roadside for my boyfriend to come in his Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE FLOWING Poem Text First Line: Head doused under the bronze Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE HUMP BACKED FLUTE PLAYER Poem Text THE MARKET Poem Text First Line: Heart of the city Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: Ceaseless wheel of lives Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THE TRAIL IS NOT A TRAIL Poem Text First Line: I drove down the freeway Subject(s): Nature THE WILD MUSHROOM Poem Text First Line: Well the sunset rays are shining Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels THEN First Line: When everybody in the world has a car THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE TO GET DIRTY THIN ICE First Line: Walking in february Last Line: It broke and I dropped %eight inches in THINGS TO DO AROUND A LOOKOUT First Line: Wrap up in a blanket in cold weather and just read THINGS TO DO AROUND KYOTO First Line: Lie on the mats and sweat in summer THIRD WATCH First Line: He is the pard that pads on two bare feet THIS IS LIVING First Line: Who's that old lady? THIS POEM IS FOR BEAR Last Line: With a handful of rice THIS POEM IS FOR BIRDS Last Line: As they shoot by, see or go blind THIS TOKYO First Line: Peace, war, religion THOUGHTS ON LOOKING AT A SAMUEL PALMER ETCHING AT THE TATE First Line: Moonlight landscape, sheep Last Line: Before they board the truck THREE DEER ONE COYOTE RUNNING IN THE SNOW First Line: First three deer bounding Last Line: To study how that news all got put down THREE POEMS FOR JOANNE: 1. LOVING WORDS First Line: Her big basket %blond hair drawn back Last Line: Nothing willshake that %aine commitment down Variant Title(s): Loving Words Will Cost But Littl THREE POEMS FOR JOANNE: 2. THE HEART OF THE WOOD First Line: The cool %clearing Last Line: This place is %too far %in THREE POEMS FOR JOANNE: 3. JOANNE MY WIFE First Line: Joanne my wife %why frown Last Line: Fights and the frown %at dawn THREE WORLDS, THREE REALMS, SIX ROADS Poem Text First Line: Hear phone poles hum Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THREE WORLDS, THREE REALMS, SIX ROADS First Line: Hear phone poles hum Last Line: Going home Subject(s): Geology; Mythology THROUGH First Line: The white spot of a flicker THROUGH THE SMOKE HOLE First Line: There is another world above this one; or outside of this one Last Line: Plain men %come out of the ground TIBETAN ARMY SURPLUS STORE TO FIRE First Line: (goma/homa) %I have raised pure flames Last Line: With joy %I pray TO HELL WITH YOUR FERTILITY CULT, I Poem Text Subject(s): Family TO HELL WITH YOUR FERTILITY CULT, I Last Line: He had nothing to say Subject(s): Hate; Sex TO MEET WITH AGARICUS AUGUSTUS First Line: Back up the ridge TO THE CHINESE COMRADES First Line: The armies of china and russia Last Line: Just %wait TOJI First Line: Men asleep in their underwear Last Line: The streetcar clanks by outside TOMORROW'S SONG First Line: The usa slowly lost its mandate Last Line: At work and in our place: %in the service %of the wilderness%of life %of death %of the mother's brea TOO MANY CHICKENS GONE First Line: Bobcat paws. Bobcat pelt TOWARD CLIMAX First Line: Salt seas, mountains, deserts Last Line: On the heat of the dead & down TRADE First Line: I found myself inside a massive concrete shell Last Line: Were trading all their precious time %for things TRAIL CREW CAMP AT BEAR VALLEY, 9,000 FEET First Line: Cut branches back for a day Last Line: Black coffee in a big tin can TRAIL IS NOT A TRAIL First Line: I drove down the freeway Last Line: And it faded away - %out in the open, %everywhere to go Subject(s): Nature TRAVELLING TO THE CAPITAL First Line: I put on my travelling clothes Last Line: This waste-tormented sea TREE SONG First Line: Between dirt dark and giddy sky Last Line: My secret hardwood no bud ever knew Subject(s): Environment; Nature TRUE NIGHT First Line: Shath of sleep in the black of the bed Last Line: Every day %with the dawn TRUTH LIKE THE BELLY OF A WOMAN TURNING First Line: The truth %like the belly of a woman turning Last Line: Live oak and madrone TWELVE HOURS OUT OF NEW YORK AFTER TWENTY-FIVE DAYS AT SEA First Line: The sun always setting behind us Last Line: Pack your stuff and get paid TWO COMMENTS First Line: I walk the oldest culture on earth & hold TWO FAWNS THAT DIDN'T SEE THE LIGHT THIS SPRING First Line: A friend in a tipi in the %northern rockies went out Last Line: Hooves were soft and white TWO IMMORTALS First Line: Sitting on a bench by the rogue river, oregon, looking at a Last Line: Columbia, eastern washington plateau country. 'channelled scablands.' TWO LOGGING SONGS: CLEAR-CUT First Line: Forestry. How %many people Last Line: Some were over-ripe TWO LOGGING SONGS: VIRGIN First Line: A virgin %forest Last Line: Stable; at %climax ULURU WILD FIG SONG First Line: Soft earth turns straight up Last Line: This wild fig song UNDER THE HILLS NEAR THE MORAVA RIVER Poem Text First Line: She lay there midst Subject(s): Geology; Mythology UNDER THE HILLS NEAR THE MORAVA RIVER First Line: She lay there midst Last Line: Bones of two men lying by her, %one each side Subject(s): Geology; Mythology UP BRANCHES OF DUCK RIVER First Line: Shaka valley--chickens thousands Last Line: Hold it close %give it all away USES OF LIGHT First Line: It warms my bones %say the stones Last Line: You'll see a thousand miles more VAPOR TRAILS Poem Text First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus Last Line: —spotting that design. Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VERSIONS OF ANACREON First Line: If you can tell the leaves on all the trees VILLANELLE OF THE WANDERING LAPPS First Line: We seek the hidden lair VOLCANO IN KYUSHU First Line: Mount aso -- uplands Last Line: Tearing down pines %at los alamos W First Line: In every house there is a wife WAIKIKI First Line: A steep reef of concrete, steel, and glass WALK First Line: Sunday the only day we don't work Last Line: Stoppt and swam and ate my lunch Subject(s): Nature WALKING HOME FROM 'THE DUCHESS OF MALFI' Last Line: With more love, %not less WALKING THE NEW YORK BEDROCK ALIVE IN THE SEA OF INFORMATION Poem Text First Line: Maple, oak, poplar, gingko Subject(s): Geology; Mythology WALKING THE NEW YORK BEDROCK ALIVE IN THE SEA OF INFORMATION First Line: Maple, oak, poplar, gingko Subject(s): Geology; Mythology WAR OF DWARFS AND BIRDS BEYOND THE SEA First Line: Feeble breakers, the loose kelp slop WASH ME ON HOME, MAMA Last Line: I will not have heard them. Signed, %( -- ) %coyote WATER First Line: Pressure of sun on the rockslide Last Line: Eyes open aching from the cold and faced a trout WAVE First Line: Grooving clam shell Last Line: To the dancing grain of things %of my mind WAY WEST, UNDERGROUND First Line: The split-cedar %smoked salmon Last Line: Painted in caves, %underground WE MAKE OUR VOWS TOGETHER WITH ALL BEINGS First Line: Eating a sandwich WE WASH OUR BOWLS IN THIS WATER Poem Text First Line: A day on the ragged north pacific coast get soaked by whipping Subject(s): Geology; Mythology WE WASH OUR BOWLS IN THIS WATER First Line: A day on the ragged north pacific coast get soaked by whipping Last Line: Can't throw some light on the nature of ridges and rivers, %who can?' Subject(s): Geology; Mythology WEAVE First Line: Walking the yuba canyon WHAT HAPPENED HERE BEFORE First Line: First a sea: soft sands, muds, and marls Last Line: Bluejay screeches from a pine WHAT HAVE I LEARNED First Line: What have I learned but Last Line: You pass it on WHAT HISTORY FAILS TO MENTION IS Last Line: Who tricked for bigshots, and were fools WHAT STEPS First Line: What steps. %philip shaving his head Last Line: Ashes, ashes, %--all fall down WHAT TO TELL, STILL First Line: Reading the galley pages of laughlin's collected poems Last Line: Or not to say, what to tell, or not, to whom %or when, %still WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POET Poem Text First Line: All you can about animals as persons Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POET First Line: All you can about animals as persons Last Line: Real danger. Gambles. And the edge of death Subject(s): Poetry And Poets WHY LOG TRUCK DRIVERS RISE EARLIER THAN STUDENTS OF ZEN Poem Text First Line: In the high seat, before-dawn dark Subject(s): Men WHY LOG TRUCK DRIVERS RISE EARLIER THAN STUDENTS OF ZEN First Line: In the high seat, before-dawn dark Last Line: There is no other life Subject(s): Men WILD EDGE First Line: Curve of the two steel spring-up prongs on Last Line: Kai wakes and cries WILD MUSHROOM First Line: Well the sunset rays are shining Last Line: They are a help to man Subject(s): Mushrooms WIND HAS BLOWN' WITH THIS FLESH First Line: ...On the twenty-eighth day of september 1539,the very excel- %lent Last Line: With this flesh I thee wed Subject(s): Geology; Mythology WITHOUT First Line: The silence %of nature %within Last Line: The proof of the power within WORD BASKET WOMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Years after surviving Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry & Poets; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WORD BASKET WOMAN First Line: Years after surviving Last Line: On the arch of her white %pubic bone Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry And Poets WORK FOR BURKE First Line: Moveable type' indeed has spread the word WORK TO DO TOWARD TOWN First Line: Venus glows in the east Last Line: All roads descend toward town WORKING ON THE '58 WILLYS PICKUP First Line: The year this truck was made Last Line: Withh tough-handed men of the past YASE: SEPTEMBER First Line: Old mrs. Kawabata Last Line: And put them in my kitchen in a jar YEARS First Line: The years seem to tumble Last Line: And watch the night sky turn YEARS YOU'VE GONE COLD, I SUPPOSE, FR. ATTHIS YUBA COUNTRY AUTUMN First Line: Today is the first day of autumn |
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