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| Searching... Author: CREELEY, ROBERT Matches Found: 1589 Creeley, Robert Poet's Biography 1589 poems available by this author 1971 First Line: The year the head Last Line: Now, here and %now here 3 IN 1 First Line: The bird %flies Last Line: The bird %flies. She %flies 6-JUN-70 First Line: We will write a Last Line: The world erupts %people laugh A First Line: Head of Last Line: The outside %inside A BALLAD Poem Text First Line: We have a song for the death in her body Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth A BIRTHDAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Shall we address it Subject(s): Birthdays A COUNTERPOINT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Let me be my own fool Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A DAY AT THE BEACH Recitation by Author A DEDICATION Recitation by Author A FOLK SONG Poem Text First Line: Hitch up honey for the Subject(s): Horse Racing A FORM OF ADAPTATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My enemies came to get me Subject(s): Enemies; Love A FORM OF WOMEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I have come far enough Subject(s): Love A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: On the street I am met with constant hostility Subject(s): Children; Childhood A GIFT OF GREAT VALUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Horses; Parents; Parenthood A MARRIAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The first retainer / he gave to her Subject(s): Men A METHOD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Patterns/of sounds, endless Subject(s): Sounds A NIGHT SKY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All the grass A PIECE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: One and A POEM Poem Text First Line: If the water forms A POEM Poem Text First Line: If the water forms A PRAYER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Bless/something small Subject(s): Simplicity A REASON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Each gesture A SIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Quicker/than that, can't A SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I had wanted a quiet testament Subject(s): Singing & Singersand Singers A STEP Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Things/come and go Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence A TALLY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A tally of forces, consequent A TOKEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My lady A VARIATION Poem Text First Line: My son who is stranger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A WICKER BASKET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Comes the time when it's later Subject(s): Food & Eating A WISH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: So much rain Last Line: Ways of water Subject(s): Wishes ABSTRACT First Line: The inertia unexpected of Last Line: There you are and I look %to see you still, all %the distance still implacable ACT OF LOVE First Line: Whatever constitutes %the act of love Last Line: Arms I still %can think of you AFTER First Line: I'll not write again Last Line: Over the horizon let %the day end AFTER FROST Poem Text First Line: He comes here AFTER FROST First Line: He comes here Last Line: Would he be here, %like they say AFTER LORCA Recitation First Line: The church is a business, and the rich / are the business men Subject(s): Religion; Theology AFTER LORCA First Line: The church is a business, and the rich %are the business men Last Line: And the poor love it %and think it's crazy Subject(s): Religion AFTER MALLARME First Line: Stone, %like stillness Last Line: Without a sound AFTER PASTERNAK First Line: Think that it's all one? Last Line: Whatever is here now %cannot last AGAIN First Line: I wanted you Last Line: Wants enough AGAIN First Line: One more day gone Last Line: A hotel - to begin %again AGE Poem Text First Line: He is thinking of everyone Last Line: Talks and talks Subject(s): Aging AGE First Line: He is thinking of everyone Last Line: He thinks he'll hate it %and when he does die %at last, he supposes %he still won't know it Subject(s): Aging AGE First Line: Most explicit %the sense of trap Last Line: Talks, even if finally to no one, %talks and talks Variant Title(s): Talking Of Ag AGH -- MAN / THINKS Last Line: I was going to learn something. [john muir, the yosemite, p.59] AIR: 'THE LOVE OF A WOMAN' Last Line: Happy, so she lived AIR: CAT BIRD SINGING First Line: Cat bird singing Last Line: O lady hear me. I have no %other %voice left AIR: THE LOE OF A WOMAN AIR: THE LOVE OF A WOMAN Last Line: Happy, so she lived AIR: CAT BIRD SINGING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Cat bird singing Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs AIR: THE LOVE OF A WOMAN Poem Text First Line: The love of a woman Subject(s): Love ALBA Poem Text First Line: Your tits are rosy in the dawn Subject(s): Love - Erotic ALBA First Line: Your tits are rosy in the dawn Last Line: Of body and of fever ALEX'S ART First Line: Art's a peculiar division of labors-a small town cat before he Last Line: (see, %and I look at you. The simple question still. Can you see me? ALICE First Line: The apple in Last Line: Her eye ALL AROUND Last Line: Fucking, endless volume ALL THAT IS LOVELY IN MEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Nothing for a dirty man Last Line: That is lovely in women Subject(s): Men ALL THAT IS LOVELY IN MEN First Line: Nothing for a dirty man Last Line: That is lovely in women Subject(s): Men ALL THE FANTASIES THAT Last Line: Inex- %orable movement forward ALL THE WAY First Line: Dance a little Last Line: Simple directions, direction %to follow ALL THIS FLESH, MEAT Last Line: Days go by %uncounted ALL WALL First Line: Vertical skull time Last Line: And time after time and not done yet time %nothing left time to go time. Time ALWAYS First Line: Sweet sister mary's gone Last Line: It's always now, always here AMBITION First Line: Couldn't guess it Last Line: Wasn't ever %there then. Won't %come back, don't %want it AMERICA Poem Text First Line: America, you ode for reality Last Line: Us, and nowhere but you to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations AMERICA First Line: America, you ode for reality Last Line: Us, and nowhere but you to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AN IRISHMAN'S LAMENT ON THE APPROACHING WINTER Poem Text First Line: Hello to you, lady AN OBSCENE POEM Poem Text First Line: The girl in the bikini, my Subject(s): Desire AND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A pretty party for people AND First Line: A pretty party for people %to become engaged in Last Line: They are all dead now ANGER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The time is Subject(s): Anger ANGER First Line: The time is Last Line: Be at last the real end of you Subject(s): Anger ANIMAL First Line: Shaking the head from Last Line: Could not, who %did not know ANSWER First Line: Will we speak to each other Last Line: Hearing them fall just to hear it ANYWHERE First Line: Slight wander of innocence Last Line: Gone to, and forgotten APOLOGY First Line: I think to compose a sonnet Last Line: Graciousness to them %of course APPLE UPPFLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Vanity (like a belly APPLE UPPFLE First Line: Vanity (like a belly Last Line: To the pleasure of a meal in silence APRES ANDERS First Line: In her hair the APRES ANDERS: AGAIN First Line: The woman who %came out of the shadow Last Line: Where also %I'd been APRES ANDERS: DEN ALTEN First Line: Then to old uncle emil Last Line: Feuchten clay, fucked finished clay APRES ANDERS: HAHA First Line: In her hair the %moon, with %the moon, wakes water Last Line: Tails of high clouds up %there, one says APRES ANDERS: KAPUT KASPER'S LATE LOVE First Line: I was %'kaput kasper' %in fensterfrost Last Line: Under stars, the stars %in the sky tonight APRES ANDERS: LATE LOVE First Line: Stuck in her stone hut Last Line: In all the sad facade ARROYO First Line: Out the window, %across the ground there Last Line: The simple division of a ditch, %between people ART First Line: Like art's AS NOW IT WOULD BE SNOW Last Line: I put the mind away AS REAL AS THINKING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Wonders created AS REAL AS THINKING Last Line: Side -- as %middle: %one %hand AS WE SIT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is a long AS WE SIT First Line: There is a long Last Line: Blows steadily %as we sit AS YOU COME Last Line: West, it sounds out AWAKENING; FOR CHARLES OLSEN First Line: He feels small as he awakens Last Line: Moving at all as all men, because you must Variant Title(s): The Awakenin AWAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Yourself walked in the room tonight AWAY First Line: Yourself walked in the room tonight Last Line: The same place, always B -- First Line: Crazy kid-face Last Line: Experience, deepens %in the air B.B. First Line: What's gone, %bugger all Last Line: It's all forgotten BABY DISASTER First Line: Blurred headlights of the cars out there Last Line: Of everything we ever thought to BACK First Line: Suppose it all turns into, again Last Line: Who are you calling BACKWARDS First Line: Nowhere before you Last Line: Any of this BALL GAME First Line: The one damn time (7th inning) Last Line: Mustard all over me BALLAD First Line: We have a song for the death in her body Last Line: And a show of hate, and not like her BALLAD OF THE DESPAIRING HUSBAND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My wife and I lived all alone Subject(s): Divorce; Men BALLAD OF THE DESPAIRING HUSBAND First Line: My wife and I lived all alone Last Line: Oh lady, grant me time, %please, to finish my rhyme Subject(s): Divorce; Men BARCELONA: FEBRUARY 13, 1977 First Line: Grave, to the will %of the people Last Line: Of the circle, wind chill - %dance, to find will BAROQUE First Line: Would you live your life spectrum Last Line: Upright pimpled distinction chilled %independence found finally only one? BE OF GOOD CHEER First Line: Go down obscurely Last Line: There are those before you %they have told you BEACH First Line: Across bay's loop %of whitecaps Last Line: Other, behind, %sit down BED First Line: She walks in beauty like a lake Last Line: Before the bed, makes true what is %the lie indeed BEDPOST IS AN Last Line: Bone, my own, or those of others BERLIN: FIRST NIGHT & EARLY MORNING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I've lost place Subject(s): Berlin, Germany BERLIN: FIRST NIGHT & EARLY MORNING First Line: I've lost place Last Line: And make love %to dem mond BESIDE HER TO LIE First Line: He'd like the edge Last Line: Beside her to lie' %in trusting comfort %no longer contests%he loves and wants her BETTER First Line: Would it be better Last Line: Better business bureaus' lie BEYOND First Line: Whether in the world below or above Last Line: Was only forever an idea and %could never be found nor had it been. %and there was nothing ever beyo BIENVENU First Line: Welcome to this bienfait Last Line: What we three %have done here BILLBOARDS: AGE First Line: Walking on %the same Last Line: After all, %nor you %an interesting %answer BILLBOARDS: BIG TIME First Line: What you got Last Line: Brother, it dies, it %no way can live %without you, it's %waiting in line BILLBOARDS: DREAM First Line: What's the truth Last Line: Old way home down %the street 'midst faces, %the sounds' flooding %poignance, the approach? BILLBOARDS: ECHO First Line: It was a thoughtful Last Line: So all together now, %a deep breath, a %fond farewell. %over BILLBOARDS: MORAL First Line: Practice %your humility Last Line: Excuse for privilege, %another place not %another's, another%way you get to get BILLBOARDS: TRUE OR FALSE First Line: One little %freckle Last Line: Lives on you. %there are %no vacancies, no %rooms with a view BILLFOLD First Line: Piece of me, curiously Last Line: Object of your own worth BIRD First Line: What did you say to me Last Line: You spoke to me BIRD, THE BIRD, THE BIRD First Line: With the spring flowers I likewise am Last Line: Implacable, but content Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BIRDS First Line: I'll miss the small birds that come Last Line: But I also love air, and fire BIRTHDAY First Line: Shall we address it Last Line: Here, so we are BLACK GRACKLE First Line: Black grackle's refreshing eyeblink Last Line: For miles and miles around %its devastating sound BLUE First Line: Ice not Last Line: White. %ice cold BLUE MOON First Line: The chair's still there Last Line: If I had legs, %I'd run BLUE SKIES MOTEL First Line: Look at %that motherfucking smokestack Last Line: Now %it's the fall BLUES First Line: Old time blues Last Line: They'll believe in men BOAT First Line: Rock me, boat Last Line: Board you, sail %off, sail off BOBBIE First Line: Every one' Last Line: Having the two BODY First Line: Slope of it, %hope of it Last Line: Aching information's dumb tide %rides to the far side Variant Title(s): Body (2 BODY (1) First Line: What twisting thought Last Line: Held me held me BOLINAS AND ME Last Line: By the sea, sky %overhead BOOK First Line: A book of such Last Line: Here where there %repairs a cluster %comes mitigates %irritation reads words BOOKCASE First Line: One cannot offer %to emptiness Last Line: In this chaos - %dead five years BOWL First Line: He comes she comes carrying carrying Last Line: As a box for it wants to touch touches %opens at the edges a flower in a bowl BOX First Line: Say it Last Line: You love yet %distracted fear %the body's change, %yourself inside it BOX First Line: Three sides Last Line: Doors, three %hands BOY First Line: Push yourself in on others Last Line: To be there, and grew a beard henceforth BREATH First Line: Breath as a braid, a tugging Last Line: And looks and breathes BRESSON'S MOVIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A movie of robert Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema BRESSON'S MOVIES First Line: A movie of robert Last Line: In love. You stand %in the woods, with %a horse, bleeding. %the story is true Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures BRICK Recitation BRICK First Line: Have I bricked up unbricked what Last Line: The voluptuous flowers patient %myself inside looking still out BRINGING YOU BACK HERE Last Line: This distance %is all in one BROAD BAY First Line: Water's a shimmer Last Line: All is in a windy echo, %time again %a far sense BROKEN BACK BLUES Poem Text Recitation First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It is a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BROKEN BACK BLUES First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It's a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians BUFFALO EVENING First Line: Steady, the evening fades Last Line: The dogs are out, walking, %and it's soon inside again, %with the light gone. Time %to eat, to think BUSINESS First Line: To be in love is like going out %side Last Line: There are records Subject(s): Love BUT (1) First Line: You wouldn't Last Line: Seeing itself go by BUT (2) First Line: If we go back to where Last Line: Be there [repeat] but BUT YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sitting next to you BUT YOU First Line: Sitting next to you Last Line: Alike, but you %but you BY THE RUDE BRIDGE... First Line: Crazy wheel of days Last Line: Bridge that arched the flood...' CALENDAR, SELS. CALENDAR: 'WHAN THAT APRILLE...' First Line: When april with his showers sweet Last Line: And so it once more does begin. %april Variant Title(s): A Calendar: "whan That Aprille" (april CALENDAR: HEARTS First Line: No end to it if %'heart to heart' Last Line: Drab season of bitter cold %to save a world. %february CALENDAR: HELEN'S HOUSE (SEPTEMBER) First Line: Early morning far trees lift Last Line: Wait for their turn CALENDAR: MARCH MOON First Line: Already night and day more Last Line: Itself open, howling, intemperate. %march Variant Title(s): A Calendar: March Moon (march CALENDAR: MEMORY (DECEMBER) First Line: I'd wanted Last Line: Still can care for %the human CALENDAR: OLD DAYS (OCTOBER) First Line: River's old look Last Line: Closer %nearer than then CALENDAR: SUMMER NIGHTS First Line: Up over the edge of %the hill climbs the Last Line: Nights' light airy shadow. %june Variant Title(s): A Calendar: Summer Nights (june CALENDAR: THE DOOR First Line: Hard to begin %always again and again Last Line: Or to the other %here waits for us. %january Variant Title(s): A Calendar: The Door (january CALENDAR: THE TALLY (NOVEMBER) First Line: Sitting at table Last Line: From the tally %the accounting Variant Title(s): The Tally Stic CALENDAR: VACATION'S END (AUGUST) First Line: Opened door chinks Last Line: Ripple in slight wind CALENDAR: WYATT'S MAY First Line: In england may's mercy %is generous. The mustard Last Line: So does may's mind remember all %it thought of once. %may Variant Title(s): A Calendar: Wyatt's May (may CANADA First Line: The maple leaf forever' Last Line: Inspired the world %to say - ' CANTOS First Line: To make peace (borso Last Line: To the inadequacy %of anyone CANZONE Poem Text First Line: As would any sound make Subject(s): Music & Musicians CANZONE First Line: As would any sound make Last Line: Or %him & his violin CAR / MOVING Last Line: Overweights it CARNIVAL First Line: Whereas the man who hits Last Line: Tenderness, but hope %defined CHAIN First Line: Had they told you, you Last Line: Chain round my neck, my %inexorably bound birth, the sweet %closed curve of fading life? CHANCE First Line: For whatever, it could Last Line: The beauty %of all %reasons CHANGES First Line: People don't act Last Line: People are poor CHANSON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Oh, let petit rondelay! Subject(s): Aging CHANSON First Line: Oh, le petit rondelay Last Line: It is that I grow older CHARACTERISTICALLY First Line: Characteristically and other words Last Line: I'll dash off %to it CHARM First Line: My children are, to me Last Line: I have myself, and love them CHASING THE BIRD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The sun sets unevenly and the people Last Line: To me a mangle is. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: Say that you're CHICAGO First Line: Say that you're Last Line: And drab, drab, drab %and locked CHILDISH First Line: Great stories matter - but the one who tells them Last Line: You'll see too %as well CHILDREN First Line: Down on the sidewalk recurrent Last Line: As the fire burns low CHRISTMAS: MAY 10, 1970 First Line: Flicker %of this light Last Line: Light, goes %by in a %flash CIANO'S First Line: Walking %off street Last Line: Points down %o earth CIRCLE First Line: As from afar Last Line: I don't love %to prove it -- love %to know it CIRCLES First Line: I took the test Last Line: They think until daylight %lets them off the hook %again till the phone rings, %someone passing %loo CITIZEN First Line: Write a giggly ode about Last Line: Either one of us can get CITY First Line: Not from that %could you get it Last Line: Boards I know %soon enough CLASSICAL First Line: One sits vague in this sullenness Last Line: All cheap tears, regrets, permissions forever utterly forgot CLOUDS First Line: The clouds passing over, the Last Line: In the fields on the way home then %as now still up there, still up there COLORS First Line: Colors of stars Last Line: Lights, wet streets COMFORT First Line: Staggering, you know Last Line: Their comfort %every time COMING HOME First Line: Saturday late afternoon Last Line: Home is where the heart is %this small house stays put COMMON First Line: Common's profound bottom Last Line: Of the space, a ground abounds, %a place to make it COMPANY First Line: Backward - as if retentive Last Line: Is the last day, this is the last, %the last, the last CONCRETE BLOCKS PAINTED AN 'OFF WHITE' Last Line: There's reason CONSOLATIO First Line: What's gone is gone Last Line: Why fear the end CONSOLATIO First Line: What's gone is gone. %what's lost is lost Last Line: Of it all again %and again an %empty ending? CONSPIRACY First Line: You send me your poems Last Line: If you will send me one of you Subject(s): Travel CONTINUING FORWARD WITH A TREMBLING Last Line: All the things of life about which one talked CORN CLOSE First Line: Words again rehearsal %'are we going %to get up into Last Line: To be where you are, %and to know it? %all's here COULD WRITE OF FUCKING Last Line: But want you with me COUNTERPOINT First Line: Let me be my own fool Last Line: Leave him lay off it. And this is %the explanation CRACKS First Line: Don't step %so lightly. Break Last Line: Of cracks in a pavement CREDO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Creo que si ... I believe Subject(s): Religion; Theology CREDO First Line: Creo qui si...I believe Last Line: I hold to, still %your hand CRISIS First Line: Let me say (in anger) that since the day we were married Last Line: Laughter releases rancor, the quality of mercy is not %strained CROW First Line: The crow in the cage in the dining-room Last Line: Sickness is the hatred of a repentance %knowing there is nothing he wants Subject(s): Hate CROWD Recitation by Author CUP First Line: Who had thought %echo precedent Last Line: Consequential, %itself an act, a %walking round rim %to see what's within CURSE First Line: The one Last Line: Tonight will %be you DAMON & PYTHIAS Poem Text First Line: When he got into bed Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The DAMON & PYTHIAS First Line: When he got into bed %he was dead Last Line: Were said to be living together again DANCING First Line: To be dancer Last Line: Or better, a jerking leap DAY COMES AND GOES Last Line: Insist on 'no problems.' that way, so to speak, there never was. -- one wants one. %'love, %bob' DAY WAS GATHERED ON WAKING Last Line: Feels nothing lost but himself DAYS First Line: In that strange light, %garish like wet blood Last Line: For you, give them %as I can to you DAYS AND DAYS First Line: After we %were all Last Line: Terrific %you bet DAYS IN THE TRAIN Last Line: And gone forever DAYS LATER -- NEITHER HAVING Last Line: Held me on her lap DEAD IN THE YEAR -- Last Line: Forms make friends DEAR DOROTHY Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Dean. Dorothy (1932-1987) DEAR DOROTHY Last Line: I'm loyal. Narcissist, I want DEATH First Line: Unlet things %static dying Last Line: Ended unbegun to %any other world %be this one DEATH First Line: Once started nothing stops Last Line: But for moment %breath's caught time %stays patient DEATH OF Last Line: One is %many DEATH OF VENUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I dreamt her sensual proportions DEATH OF VENUS First Line: I dreamt her sensual proportions Last Line: There I saw her DELIGHT DANCES Last Line: Everything works DESULTORY DAYS Last Line: Just to die %by ourselves %all alone? DIALING FOR DOLLARS First Line: My mother just on edge Last Line: Little %dollar %bills Variant Title(s): Choo Cho DICKY THE STICK Last Line: A stick DICTION First Line: The grand time when the words DIMENSIONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Little places as DIMENSIONS First Line: Little places as Last Line: For fear %of being hurt %they fall DISAPPOINTMENT First Line: Had you the eyes of a goat Last Line: Head, sad, sad, un- %goatlike DISHONEST MAILMEN First Line: They are taking all my letters, and they Last Line: Necessary. This is something %quite different DISTANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Hadn't I been Subject(s): Separation DISTANCE First Line: Hadn't I been Last Line: To my own %my longing %for them DIVISIONS Poem Text First Line: Order. Order. The bottle contains DIVISIONS First Line: Order. Order. The bottle contains Last Line: The business not %his own DO YOU THINK First Line: Do you think that if Last Line: Reality, that world, each time, new DOCTOR First Line: Face of my %father looks out Last Line: House, the doctor's family DOGS First Line: I've trained them %to come Last Line: Tells them all %they can't do DOGS OF AUCKLAND First Line: Curious, coming again here Last Line: The unobtrusive company, or else the simple valediction of a look DON'T SIGN ANYTHING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Riding the horse as was my wont Subject(s): Activity; Exercise DON'T SIGN ANYTHING First Line: Riding the horse as was my wont Last Line: You will be found in a field %asleep DOOR First Line: Thump. Thump. The door Last Line: What goes, will go on way DOOR; FOR ROBERT DUNCAN First Line: It is hard going to the door Last Line: Beckon to me, as the lady's skirt %moves small beyond it Variant Title(s): The Doo DOWN HOME First Line: Water %neither knows Last Line: Never %again %here DREAM (1) First Line: Such perfection Last Line: If this is where we are DREAM (2) First Line: A lake in the head Last Line: And under %begins to smother DREAMS First Line: What you think you %eat at some table like Last Line: And you had %been in two places? Variant Title(s): Dreams (3 DREAMS (1) First Line: Tunneling through the earth Last Line: I had come from. Dreams DREAMS (2) First Line: I was supposed to wake Last Line: Then to wake up would be %no help in time. %the grey light breaks into %dawn. The day begins Variant Title(s): Dream DREARY, HEAVY Last Line: Center. A kind DRUMS First Line: How are you harry the Last Line: Or so I remember DRUNKS OF HELSINKI First Line: Blue sky, a lurching tram makes Last Line: Consensus, minds empty of all conclusion DUTCH BOY First Line: I'd thought %boy caught stopped Last Line: Be shamed %blamed %so sat %through the night %uncommonly distraught %in common fright DYING First Line: If we are to exist Last Line: The multiplicity %dying EAR First Line: He cannot move the furniture Last Line: With secrets he never divulges EARLY READING First Line: Break heart, peace Last Line: Such as hulme would also %seemingly deny yet afford %with bleak moon late %rising on cold night's fi EARS IDLE EARS First Line: Out one %ear and Last Line: Other ear %and out %without it EARTH First Line: And as the world is flat or round Last Line: Each and every thing is EAST STREET First Line: Sense of the present Last Line: Motor of one %goes by, the substantial %old birch, this %closer look- %path dennis shoveled- %distra EAST STREET AGAIN First Line: The tree stands clear in the weather Last Line: So much is forgotten no matter. %you do what you can do, no better EASTER First Line: Don't %ever refuse Last Line: In their %place EATING OUT First Line: Shit's %stench's EATS First Line: Self-shrinking focus Last Line: Contact, hence out to lunch ECHO First Line: Rudimentary characteristic of being Last Line: If nothing's there, who's here Variant Title(s): Echo (6 ECHO First Line: Outside the %trees %make limit of %simple Last Line: Ever get to %had been at %last %entered Variant Title(s): Echo (7 ECHO First Line: Entire memory %hangs tree Last Line: Can't get %out. Still can't Variant Title(s): Echo (8 ECHO First Line: It was never %simple to wait Last Line: And where %and how did one get there Variant Title(s): Echo (11 ECHO First Line: Pushing out from %this insistent Last Line: Empty, again %memory Variant Title(s): Echo (5 ECHO First Line: Back in time Last Line: For supper %when the lights Variant Title(s): Echo (3 ECHO First Line: White light blocked %impulse of repose like Last Line: Said you wanted fainted %all the ways to say no Variant Title(s): Echo (9 ECHO First Line: Brutish recall %seems useless now Last Line: See you there, still %see you there Variant Title(s): Echo (10 ECHO First Line: The return of things %round the great Last Line: It wouldn't come looking ECHO First Line: Find your way out %no doubt Last Line: Sit down to see %be quiet be %friend %the end ECHO (1) First Line: I'm almost %done, the hour Last Line: The only form %I've known ECHO (12) First Line: The return of things Last Line: Gone couldn't come %back what was with %it wouldn't come looking ECHO (13) First Line: Find your way out Last Line: Sit down to see %be quiet be %friend %the end ECHO (14) First Line: Yes but your sweetness Last Line: Such impossibilities 'I' makes up ECHO (2) First Line: Broken heart, you Last Line: To life, to life ECHO (4) First Line: Of the nameless %breather' - the brother Last Line: Affliction strikes down ECHO'S ARROW First Line: Were there answers where they were Last Line: There where air was everywhere %were there answers where they were ECHOES First Line: ...Sea, hill and wood Last Line: And makes a toy of thought ECHOES First Line: What kind of crows, %grey and black, fussy Last Line: What's been wasted again Variant Title(s): Echoes (4 ECHOES First Line: The stars stay up there where they first were Last Line: But there they were and there we saw them Variant Title(s): Echoes (3 ECHOES First Line: Eight panes %in this window Last Line: Leave love, %leave day, %come %with me.' ECHOES First Line: Step through the mirror Last Line: Were as good as any. %no mistakes Variant Title(s): Echoes (2 ECHOES (1) First Line: A sudden %loss of hope Last Line: Known too well ECHOES (5) First Line: In which the moment Last Line: Endings shreds of emptying %presence sheddings of seeming %person can at last be admitted Variant Title(s): Echoe EDGE First Line: Edge of place %put on between Last Line: Time %and space EDGE First Line: Place it Last Line: The edge beyond that edge EDGE First Line: Long over whatever edge Last Line: This must be the edge %of being before the thought of it %blurs it, can only try to recall it EDGES First Line: Edges of the field, the blue flowers, the reddish wash of Last Line: In this sunlight, here, had come to me again Variant Title(s): Edges (1 EDGES (2) First Line: Expectably slowed yet unthinking Last Line: Waited for and found %again EIGHT PLUS First Line: What's still here settles Last Line: Often someone %will get wise! EL NOCHE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the court- Subject(s): Moon ELEMENTS First Line: Sky cries down Last Line: Air feels everywhere %sudden bumps, vague emptiness. %fire burns. Earth is left %a waste, inhuman END First Line: End of page, %end of this Last Line: Words to say, %things to be END First Line: When I know what people think of me Last Line: A feeling like being choked %enters my throat END OF THE DAY First Line: Oh who is %so cosy with Last Line: Night, has come ENOUGH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is possible, in words, to speak ENOUGH First Line: It is possible, in words, to speak Last Line: Enough, enough, enough ENTRE NOUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If I can't hope then the hell with it Subject(s): Hope; Optimism ENTRE NOUS First Line: If I can't hope then to hell with it Last Line: Hell no, she just fell ENVOI First Line: Particulars they want Last Line: The world but %all of it EPIC First Line: Wanting to tell Last Line: People I think I remember, %mrs. Curley's face EPIC EXPANDS First Line: They had come in a carriage Last Line: Quiet), we let the tears roll down EPIGRAPH First Line: Lot's wife Last Line: Foolish bride EROS Poem Text First Line: Also the headache of Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Disappointment EROS First Line: Also the headache of Last Line: And one night I said to her, do you %and she didn't EROTICA First Line: On the path %down here, to the sea Last Line: Blurred pages, %dirty pictures EUROPEANS First Line: Or me wanting another man's Last Line: Telling them all about %myself EVER SINCE HITLER Last Line: Apparently dead at last %just no other way out Variant Title(s): Ever Since Hitler.. EVERY DAY Poem Text Recitation by Author EVERY DAY Last Line: Echoes, things, faces EYE First Line: The eye I look out of Last Line: Come back to us EYE First Line: Moon %and clouds, will Last Line: Moon's and %mind's %eye EYE O' THE STORM First Line: Weather's a funny %factor, like once Last Line: Of whatever there is EYES First Line: I hadn't noticed that Last Line: Blue a fainter white light %growing longer now higher %goingoff out of sight FACES Recitation by Author FACES First Line: The faces with anticipated youth Last Line: Away, avoid forever the girl %next door, whose cracked, wrinkled %smile will still persist, still kn FACT First Line: Think of a grand metaphor Last Line: How abstract %is that fucking fact FADING LIGHT First Line: Now one might catch it see it Last Line: Supper here left years behind waits %patient in mind remembers the time FAINT FACES First Line: I can't move %as formerly but Last Line: Was part of %parting and %leaving still %here still there FALL First Line: Again you %feel the air Last Line: The trees all covered FALLING First Line: Falling %from grace Last Line: Generous water FALLING DOWNHILL Last Line: Keeps up with itself FAMILY First Line: Father %and mother Last Line: Ways to say this FAMOUS LAST WORDS First Line: There's a way out Last Line: You'll be with me till the end? %good luck, friend FAMOUS LAST WORDS: BOZO First Line: Bill's brother was partial Last Line: Wish too late, too %small, bozo FAMOUS LAST WORDS: ECHOES: 1 First Line: Patience, a peculiar %virtue, waits in time Last Line: Of what it thought %it wanted, nothing else FAMOUS LAST WORDS: ECHOES: 2 First Line: This intensive going in, %to live there, in Last Line: Think of it, think %thinking's going to work FAMOUS LAST WORDS: FAMOUS LAST WORDS First Line: Which way did they go? Last Line: You'll be with me till the end? %good luck, friend FAMOUS LAST WORDS: LATE First Line: Looks like chunks %will be it Last Line: And lots of it, %honey FAMOUS LAST WORDS: LIFE First Line: All the ways to go, %the echoes, made sense Last Line: Now it was here. %time to move Variant Title(s): Life (2 FAMOUS LAST WORDS: MILES First Line: Simple trips, going %places, wasted Last Line: The ways you have to FAMOUS LAST WORDS: NIGHT LIGHT First Line: Look at the light %between the lights Last Line: At night thinking of some %stupid simple sunlight FAMOUS LAST WORDS: PLACE First Line: There's a way out %of here but it Last Line: Gone, days seemingly %over. No one FAMOUS LAST WORDS: VERDE First Line: Green, how I love you green Last Line: Or some parallel biological fact, my dear FANCY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Do you know what FANCY First Line: Do you know what %the truth is Last Line: Kind of small %nothing FANTASIES / INDULGED, GREAT Last Line: Come in, doors %open FARM First Line: Tips of celery Last Line: Day I'll go away FATHERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Scattered, aslant Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The FATHERS First Line: Scattered, aslant Last Line: The ground, wants this frozen ground Subject(s): Death; Fathers FEARFUL LOVE First Line: Love was my heart Last Line: Out of my head FEELING First Line: However far %I'd gone Last Line: Nothing left clear FESTIVAL First Line: Death makes his Last Line: Another, the aunt aged 6 %also FIGURE OF FUN First Line: Blue dressed aged blonde Last Line: To far off france and history %once comfortably avoided FIGURES First Line: The stillness %of the wood Last Line: One, so quiet, %so still FINE CHINA Last Line: A dollar twenty-nine FINGER First Line: Either in or out of Last Line: One to one, and let %me follow FIRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Clear smoke Last Line: To go on Subject(s): Fire; Solitude; Loneliness FIRE First Line: Clear smoke Last Line: We can leave it all %to go on Subject(s): Fire; Solitude FIRE First Line: Oh flame falling, as shaken, as the stories Last Line: What in the light's form finds her face, %makes of her eyes the simple grace FIRST / TIME IS Last Line: Way you %were FIRST LOVE First Line: Oh your face is there a mirror days Last Line: You kept saying and saying an unending pain FIRST RAIN First Line: These retroactive small Last Line: Walk quickly. The wind %drives the rain, drenching %my coat,pants, blurs %my glasses, as I pass FIVE VARIATIONS ON ELATION First Line: This sudden %uplift elation's Last Line: What wind's echo, %uplifted spirit? %archaic feelings %floodthe body. %ah! Accomplished Variant Title(s): Five Variations On 'elation FIVE VARIATIONS ON 'ELATION': ECHO First Line: Elation's ghost %dance echoes Last Line: Flood the body. %ah! Accomplished FLAUBERT'S EARLY PROSE First Line: Eventually he dies Last Line: And then he dies FLESH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Awful rushes at times FLESH First Line: Awful rushes at times Last Line: Your body, won't wait for me FLEURS First Line: Clumped clares. %asphobellies Last Line: Asphobellies. %blumenschein FLICKER First Line: In this life the %half moment %ago is just Last Line: Even still wet's %gone faded flashlight FLOWER First Line: Remember the way you Last Line: Yet in bed before you %the patient flower FLOWER First Line: I think I grow tensions Last Line: Like that one, %like this one FLOWERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Nothing less than one thing Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS First Line: No thing less than one thing Last Line: Apart from what it must forgive FOCUS First Line: Patches of grey Last Line: Frames the %plant hangs %in middle FOLK SONG First Line: Hitch up honey for the Last Line: Can push her like %hell. %I know FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD First Line: Present again Last Line: Or done or %right or %wrong or %wander on FOLLOWING THE DRINKING GOURD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Present again FOOLS First Line: Stripped trees in the wet wind Last Line: Or any other more %still tries to open it FOR A BUS ON ITS SIDE AND THE MAN INSIDE IT First Line: Wise house, and Last Line: One in this clear place FOR A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: You are the one man Subject(s): Friendship FOR A FRIEND (1) First Line: Who remembers him also, he thinks Last Line: In a world of no one else FOR A FRIEND (2) First Line: You are the one man Last Line: But love is eternal %and pathetic equally FOR A SCREAMING LADY Poem Text First Line: Pumping away pumping away FOR A SCREAMING LADY First Line: Pumping away pumping away Last Line: Because I won't be FOR ALLEN First Line: Air of heaven sings Last Line: Is limping because you are looking FOR AN ANNIVERSARY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Where you dream of water Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR AN ANNIVERSARY First Line: Where you dream of water Last Line: But no one is damned FOR AN OLD FRIEND First Line: What became of your novel with the lunatic Last Line: Do you ever think of me FOR ANNE Recitation by Author Subject(s): Love; Resignation FOR ANYBODY First Line: I could climb a mountain Last Line: Now they tell me FOR ARTHUR OKAMURA First Line: It's around Last Line: So simply %sure FOR BENNY AND SABINA First Line: So lovely, now, the day Last Line: Of all it seems to find FOR BETSY AND TOM First Line: We are again Last Line: Love everyone alive FOR CHUCK HINMAN First Line: So big %the out there Last Line: Are the same: %all around FOR DAVID Recitation by Author FOR DAYS NEGLECTED Last Line: When he's hungry %enough FOR EBBE Last Line: With love FOR ED First Line: Like life like FOR FEAR Poem Text First Line: For fear I want Last Line: Into old hurt? Subject(s): Fear; Love - Complaints FOR FEAR First Line: For fear I want Last Line: Bent nail %into old hurt Subject(s): Fear; Love - Complaints FOR FRIENDSHIP Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Friendship FOR FRIENDSHIP First Line: For friendship %make a chain that holds Last Line: That cannot move %unless they hold FOR HELEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If I can remember anything FOR HELEN First Line: If I can %remember anything Last Line: Slide my finger along %each edge FOR IRVING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At seventeen women were strange & forbidden phenomenons Subject(s): Aging; Women FOR IRVING First Line: At seventeen women were strange and forbidden phenomenons Last Line: An argument still visible, an %excuse for it FOR J.D. First Line: Seeing is believing - %times such things Last Line: Where tree grows, %gate was %waiting Variant Title(s): For J.d. (1 FOR J.D.: 2 First Line: Pass on by, love, %wait by that garden gate Last Line: A weather of spaces, %intervals between silences Variant Title(s): For J.d. (2 FOR J.L. First Line: The ducks are gone Last Line: What matters, so soon become fact FOR JOEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Some simple Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR JOEL First Line: Some simple Last Line: A groom so wise FOR JOHN CHAMBERLAIN First Line: They paid my way here Last Line: And art is art because of you FOR JOHN DUFF First Line: Blast of harsh %flat sunlight Last Line: There %is all there is FOR LESLIE First Line: For you there ought Last Line: Your eyes such blue FOR LEWIS, TO SAY IT First Line: All one knows, and knows Last Line: To me is not possible FOR LOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Yesterday I wanted to Subject(s): Love FOR LOVE First Line: Yesterday I wanted to Last Line: Into the company of love %it all returns FOR MARISOL First Line: A little Last Line: Water %falls FOR MARTIN Recitation by Author First Line: In the narcotic and act FOR MARTIN First Line: In the narcotic and act Last Line: That our ugliness %be inhabited FOR MY MOTHER: GENEVIEVE JULES CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Tender, semi- / articulate flickers Subject(s): Mothers FOR MY MOTHER: GENEVIEVE JULES CREELEY First Line: Tender, semi- %articulate flickers Last Line: I am here, %and will follow Subject(s): Mothers FOR NO CLEAR REASON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I dreamt last night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR NO CLEAR REASON First Line: I dreamt last night Last Line: Season, for no clear reason FOR NOTHING ELSE First Line: For nothing else, %this for love Last Line: For what other %one is this %for love once %was and is %for love, %for love Variant Title(s): For Nothing Els FOR PEN First Line: Lady moon FOR PEN First Line: Reading, in the chair %in front of the fire Last Line: Grey and blue %together, rain and sun FOR PEN First Line: Thinking out %of the heart Last Line: I want to come home FOR PEN First Line: Last day of year %sky's a light Last Line: - 'be happy with me.' FOR RAINER GERHARDT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Impossible, rightly, to define these Subject(s): Friendship FOR RAINER GERHARDT First Line: Impossible, rightly, to define these Last Line: Petulance in us %kept apart FOR RENE RICARD First Line: Remote control factors Last Line: A necessary love FOR SOME WEEKS Last Line: Bless the world %you're given FOR SOMEBODY'S MARRIAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All night in a toughtful Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR SOMEBODY'S MARRIAGE First Line: All night in a thoughtful Last Line: Defended -- %though confident FOR TED BERRIGAN Poem Text First Line: After, size of place Last Line: Thinking of you. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Berrigan, Edmund Joseph FOR THE GRADUATION First Line: Pretension has it Last Line: Was like %at your age FOR THE GRADUATION (BOLINAS, 1973) First Line: The honor Last Line: Of the circle %finding you FOR THE GRADUATION: BOLINAS, 1972 First Line: Round and round Last Line: All of us %we're home FOR THE NEW YEAR First Line: Rid forever of them and me Last Line: Hunger, despair, a common grief Variant Title(s): For The New Year (1 Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR (2) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: From something in the trees Last Line: Of doing nothing right Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR (2) First Line: From something in the trees Last Line: Of doing nothing right Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE WORLD THAT EXISTS First Line: No safer place to live than with children Last Line: For the world that exists FOR TOM First Line: Friends make Last Line: Quite enough FOR W.C.W. Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The pleasure of the wit sustains Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) FOR W.C.W. First Line: The pleasure of the wit sustains Last Line: A wild exultation FOR W.C.W. First Line: The rhyme is after %all the repeated insistence Last Line: Then there is -- %and %I want FOR WALTER CHAPPELL First Line: Dream: pigeon Last Line: Become the place %we come to FOR YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Like watching rings expand in the water FOR YOU First Line: Like watching rings extend in water Last Line: This time of life FOREVER First Line: What is FORM OF ADAPTATION First Line: My enemies came to get me Last Line: But how account for love, even if you look for it %I trusted it FORM OF WOMEN First Line: I have come far enough Last Line: When you see me FORMS' PASSAGE AS Last Line: Behind the scene FORT COLLINS REMEMBERED First Line: To be backed Last Line: Echo of time spent %car's blown motor %town on edge of %wherever fifty %bucks you're lucky FORT WILLIAM HENRY/PEMAQUID First Line: Squat round stone tower Last Line: Flops on bottom in sea's puddle Variant Title(s): Fort William Henry - Pemaqui FORTY First Line: The forthright, good-natured faith Last Line: He has friends to believe in, %those who love him FOUR First Line: Befoe I die Last Line: Before I die FOUR DAYS IN VERMONT Poem Text First Line: Window's tree trunk's predominant face FOUR DAYS IN VERMONT First Line: Window's tree trunk's predominant face Last Line: Answers, live and die. Believe FOUR FOR JOHN DALEY First Line: I wanted approval FOUR FOR JOHN DALEY: BUFFALO AFTERNOON First Line: Greyed board fence %past brown open door Last Line: So placed in vacant space FOUR FOR JOHN DALEY: ECHO First Line: Lonely in %no one Last Line: Caring %for those one's known FOUR FOR JOHN DALEY: LEAVING First Line: My eye teared %lump in throat Last Line: That can stand %with those abandoned FOUR FOR JOHN DALEY: MOTHER'S THINGS First Line: I wanted approval, %carrying with me Last Line: With that silently %expressive will FOUR YEARS LATER First Line: When my mother Last Line: What no other can know FRAGMENT First Line: On the street I am met with constant hostility Last Line: And whom I intend to leave as relics of my intentions %again FRAGMENT First Line: Slight you lift Last Line: Featured face. %hand in when. %disposition. %distrust FRAGMENT First Line: Here judgement was suspended FRAGMENTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Decorous, and forbearing further correction FRAGMENTS First Line: Decorous, and forbearing further correction Last Line: Of one's blunders FRIEND First Line: What I saw in his head Last Line: And I wanted to help him FRIENDS First Line: I want to help you %by understanding what Last Line: Backend of a horse. Horse's %ass, would be the way FROM PICO & THE WOMAN: A LIFE Poem Text First Line: Love god, we rather man, than FROM PICO AND THE WOMEN: A LIFE First Line: Love god, we rather may, than Last Line: Not bite you nor otherwise harm FUNERAL First Line: Why was grandma Last Line: Sitting on the ground FUNNY First Line: Why isn't it funny when you die Last Line: Know there's an end to it Variant Title(s): Funny (2 FUNNY (1) First Line: Raining here Last Line: No more than wet GANGSTER Poem Text First Line: He said, turning, unconcious of GANGSTER First Line: He said, turning, unconscious of Last Line: He'll wait for a reckoning GEMINI Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Two eyes, two hands GEMINI First Line: Two eyes, two hands Last Line: He is alone GESTURE First Line: The gesture she makes GET IT ANYWAY Last Line: You can but first of all, eat it GIFT First Line: He hands %down the gift Last Line: That all, is %that all GIFT OF GREAT VALUE First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Last Line: Sterile vision -- and a great %wind we ride Subject(s): Animals; Gifts And Giving; Horses; Parents GIVEN First Line: Can you recall Last Line: Who knows how GNOMIC VERSES Poem Text First Line: Down the road up the hill into the house Subject(s): Time; Nature GNOMIC VERSES First Line: Now and then Last Line: Memory's mistakes GNOMIC VERSES First Line: You are here Last Line: Being but one %of you GNOMIC VERSES First Line: Out there %in here Last Line: Now it is %was also GNOMIC VERSES First Line: Up where %it will be Last Line: And down %again GNOMIC VERSES First Line: No one %point Last Line: To it %ever GNOMIC VERSES: AIR First Line: Lift up so you'r %floating out Last Line: Free of the ground GNOMIC VERSES: CASE First Line: Whenas to for Last Line: Gain granted planned or GNOMIC VERSES: DATA First Line: Exoneration's face Last Line: Makeshift's decision GNOMIC VERSES: DOOR First Line: Everything's before you Last Line: Were here GNOMIC VERSES: DUTY First Line: Let little linda allow litigation Last Line: Handmake harold's homework handsomely GNOMIC VERSES: EAT First Line: Head on backwards Last Line: Drops jowled brunch GNOMIC VERSES: ECHO First Line: In the way it was in the street Last Line: It was in the dark it was GNOMIC VERSES: ECHO AGAIN First Line: Statement keep talking Last Line: Train round bend over river into distance GNOMIC VERSES: ECHOES First Line: Think of the Last Line: Two legged woman GNOMIC VERSES: ECHOES First Line: Sunrise always first Last Line: Simple mindedness GNOMIC VERSES: FAR First Line: Far be it from harry' Last Line: Follows your mother GNOMIC VERSES: FAT FATE First Line: Be at that this Last Line: Ever happen it will GNOMIC VERSES: FOUR'S First Line: Four's forms %back and forth Last Line: Paper route final chute GNOMIC VERSES: GOTCHA First Line: Passion's particulars Last Line: One night stands GNOMIC VERSES: HAVE A HEART First Line: Have heart find head Last Line: Oh boy ain't life grand GNOMIC VERSES: HERE First Line: Outstretched innocence Last Line: See if it reaches GNOMIC VERSES: HERES First Line: You have to reach Last Line: You it's here GNOMIC VERSES: LOOK First Line: Particular pleasures weather measures or Last Line: Dimestore delights faced with such sights GNOMIC VERSES: LOOP First Line: Down the road up the hill into the house Last Line: No one %point %to it %ever GNOMIC VERSES: LOOP First Line: Down the road up the hill into the house Last Line: In front of the door between the lines along the path GNOMIC VERSES: MORAL First Line: Now the inevitable Last Line: It takes, it takes GNOMIC VERSES: OH OH First Line: Now and then Last Line: On and on GNOMIC VERSES: PAT'S First Line: Par's place Last Line: Changes that GNOMIC VERSES: SCATTER First Line: All that's left of coherence GNOMIC VERSES: SENTENCES First Line: Indefatigably alert when hit still hurt Last Line: Laboriously enfeebled he still loved people GNOMIC VERSES: STAR First Line: Where %it is Last Line: There %you are GNOMIC VERSES: SUMMER '38 First Line: Nubble's light a sort Last Line: Tip on the edge %of the sea GNOMIC VERSES: THERE First Line: Hard to be unaddressed Last Line: Be where it is GNOMIC VERSES: TIME First Line: Of right of wrong of up of down Last Line: Of feel of friend of it of now GNOMIC VERSES: TOFFEE First Line: Little bit patted pulled Last Line: Stretched set let cool GNOMIC VERSES: WEST ACTON SUMMER First Line: Car's rats, mother's brother Last Line: Echo's ending, begin again GNOMIC VERSES: WINTER First Line: Season's upon us Last Line: Leaves struck fist GNOMIC VERSES: WORDS First Line: Driving to the expected Last Line: Driving to the expected GO First Line: Push that little %thing up and the Last Line: Other right down. %it'll work GO FLOAT THE BOAT First Line: Is it possible GOING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is nothing GOING First Line: There is nothing Last Line: Way through %her mind GOING TO BED Poem Text First Line: That dim shattering character of nerves GOING TO BED First Line: That dim shattering character of nerves Last Line: What is after all a plan GOODBYE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She stood at the window> there was Subject(s): Anger; Farewell; Parting GOODBYE First Line: She stood at the window. There was Last Line: Not turning to him GOODBYE First Line: Now I recognize %it was always me Last Line: I want no more than home GREENDOON'S SONG Poem Text First Line: It's the greyness said greendon GREENDOON'S SONG First Line: It's the greyness said greendoon Last Line: Puts the lock into our hand GREETING CARD First Line: Expect the unexpected Last Line: Expect the unexpected %and have a happy day GROUND ZERO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GUIDO, I' VORREI CHE TU E LAPO ED IO First Line: Guido %I would that you, me & lapo Last Line: The sound of the reaches %the actual wood GUIDO, I' VORREI CHE, TU E LAPO ET IO Poem Text First Line: Guido, I would that you, me & lapo H'S First Line: Have hannah's happy health Last Line: On with it. So is %hannah %in this world HAND First Line: This way to end Last Line: Grabs on to my mind HANDS First Line: Reaching out to shake Last Line: Hands, take in %hand hands HANDS First Line: Take the hands Last Line: Some other %woman HAPPY LOVE, THIS Last Line: Hen pheasant %walk along HAPPY MAN First Line: Who would love you Last Line: Would look at you HARRY First Line: You're sucking Last Line: We used to say HART CRANE (1) Poem Text First Line: Answer: how old Last Line: Had broke this thing Variant Title(s): Hart Crane 2 Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932) HART CRANE (1) First Line: Answer: how old Last Line: Apolaustic %had broke this thing Variant Title(s): Hart Crane Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932) HART CRANE (2) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He had been stuttering, by the edge Last Line: Hart crane. / hart Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932) HART CRANE (2) First Line: He had been stuttering, by the edge Last Line: And so it was I entered the broken world %hart crane %hart Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932) HAVING TO Poem Text Recitation by Author HAVING TO Last Line: Cars, a truck, animals, in crowds HEAVEN First Line: Wherever they've %gone they're Last Line: They stood %for is empty %also Variant Title(s): Heaven (2 HEAVEN First Line: If life were easy Last Line: What would happen anyway HEAVEN (1) First Line: I don't want Last Line: Mother, and you guys HEAVEN KNOWS First Line: Seemingly never until one's dead Last Line: Heaven knows if that's where one goes HEAVENLY HANNAH First Line: Oh hannie Last Line: Help me %help HEAVY First Line: Friends's story of dead whale on california beach Last Line: And lice and just the nice people next door, o year HELAS Poem Text First Line: Helas! Or christus fails HELAS First Line: Helas! Or christus fails Last Line: Take no edge from the wind, no edge %or delight HELLO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: With a quick HELLO First Line: With a quick Last Line: What flesh was left HELLO: A JOURNAL FEBRUARY 29 - MAY 3, 1976 First Line: That's the way %(that's the way %I like it (I like it' Last Line: You can see her face, %hear her voice, %hope it's happy HELP (1) First Line: Places one's come to Last Line: Because he recognizes at last, by god, %he's not all there is Variant Title(s): Hel HELP (2) First Line: Who said you didn't want Last Line: And the others are busy %still making money HELP HEAVEN First Line: Help heaven up out Last Line: So deep and soft %lovely it feels to %be here at all now HELSINKI WINDOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Go out into brightened Subject(s): Weather; Helsinki, Finland HELSINKI WINDOW First Line: Go out into brightened Last Line: Moment distract it be %beyond its simple space HERD First Line: Way out they are riding, it is an old Last Line: Animals moving, men before and behind them way HERE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What/has happened HERE First Line: In other %words opaque Last Line: Inflexible and %left afterwards HERE First Line: Seen right of head Last Line: Dancing shadows, %now comes night HERE (1) First Line: No one Last Line: Opens %and closes HERE (2) First Line: What %has happened Last Line: On the edge, %looking HERE (3) First Line: Here is Last Line: Where there %is HERE (4) First Line: In other %words opaque Last Line: Inflexible and %left afterwards HERE (5) First Line: Seen right of head Last Line: Here, slanted lengthening %sun on back wall's %dancing shadows, %now comes night HERE (6) First Line: Past time -- those Last Line: A warm hand HERE (7) First Line: Little earth, water Last Line: Hears, as one HERE AGAIN First Line: He was walking %toward the other in Last Line: Speed at last unimpeded HERE AGAIN (1) First Line: After we Last Line: And a chair HERE AGAIN (2) First Line: He was walking Last Line: Self with any- %one else still %waiting also %to be met HERE AND NOW First Line: Never other than this unless Last Line: Moves, agreements, mores- %then up shit creek sans paddle HERE ONLY First Line: Why does it cry so much Last Line: Open to itself only as any HERO First Line: The boy %with the Last Line: Here %this %is it HERO First Line: Each voice which was asked Last Line: Of old, old fears HEROES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In all those stories the hero Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HEROES First Line: In all those stories the hero Last Line: For the heroes, and death also %can still propose the old labors Subject(s): Heroism HEY First Line: Hey kid Last Line: Flesh filled %to bursting HI THERE! First Line: Look, love Last Line: Surface of a pedestrian %fact, a new %day HILL First Line: It is some time since I have been Last Line: Which is in me %like a hill Subject(s): Men; Religion HISTOIRE DE FLORIDA First Line: You're there %still behind Last Line: In florida. Like nothing else HO HO First Line: I have broken Last Line: Forward at designed rate, %speed at last unimpeded HOLD IT Recitation by Author HOLE First Line: There is %a silence Last Line: Emptiness with %you, empty %hole HOME First Line: Patsy's %brother Last Line: Home %sweet %home HOME AGAIN Recitation by Author Subject(s): Home HOTEL First Line: It isn't in the world of %fragile relationships Last Line: You're alone, and that's happy, %give up and lie down HOTEL SCHRIEDER, HEIDELBERG First Line: Offed tv screen's %reflection room Last Line: With whom we %sat there, watching? HOUSE First Line: Mas-soner %restautat-any- %1920...Old Last Line: The white blossom %of apple %still make this song HOUSE (1) First Line: Mud put %upon mud Last Line: Built %with that in mind HOUSE (2) First Line: Mas-soner %restaurat -- any Last Line: Still make this song HOW FAR ONE HAS COME Last Line: In these seven league boots HOW THAT FACT OF Last Line: Across the %table %years HOW WISE AGE IS Last Line: How desirous HUMAN SONG First Line: What would a baby be Last Line: Will we love him. %oh tell us, tell us. %will we love him HUNGER First Line: He knows %the hunger, walking Last Line: To leave %now I Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Is the grandson Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry I First Line: Is the grandson Last Line: So they couldn't dig him up I AM HELD BY MY FEAR OF DEATH Poem Text Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The I AM HELD BY MY FEAR OF DEATH Last Line: There is nothing beyond it I CAN'T Last Line: For this variance %wait I CANNOT SEE YOU Last Line: Again %and again %now %also I DON'T HATE YOU LATELY Last Line: Hate -- for me %for you I DREAMT First Line: I dreamt I dwelt in a big building Last Line: Even if you wanted to, you couldn't I KEEP TO MYSELF SUCH MEASURES Last Line: It is my only description I KEEP TO MYSELF SUCH MEASURES €¦ Poem Text First Line: I keep to myself such I KNOW A MAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As I sd to my Subject(s): Friendship; Driving & Drivers I KNOW A MAN First Line: As I sd to my %friend, because I am Last Line: Out where yr going I LOVE YOU First Line: I see you, aunt bernice Last Line: Your house in n.H. Was lovely I WAS NEVER SO UPSET Last Line: With much the same preoccupations as I I WOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU ANYWHERE First Line: Back of the head, hand, the hair Last Line: Too. I would have known you I'LL BE HERE Poem Text First Line: There is a lake of clear water I'LL WIN First Line: I'll win the way Last Line: I'll have won completely ICE CREAM First Line: Sure, %herbert %take a bite Last Line: You-are-or-you-were-you-were ICH BIN First Line: Yellow squat ICH BIN... Last Line: Side memory echoing %old worn-out castle IF First Line: Up the edge of the window out to Last Line: The wing's of an angel so I'd fly IF First Line: If your hair was brown Last Line: There's nothing more, %there never was Variant Title(s): If (2 IF (1) First Line: Up the edge of the window out to Last Line: Now old toes wornout joints make %the wings of an angel so I'd fly IF HAPPINESS First Line: If happiness were Last Line: Then love were as true %as air, as water- %as sky's light, ground's %solidness, rock's hardness, %fo IF I HAD MY WAY First Line: If I had my way, dear Last Line: For you and for me IF YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you were going to get a pet Subject(s): Pets IF YOU First Line: If you were going to get a pet Last Line: What kind of animal would you get ILLNESS First Line: The senses of one's %life begin Last Line: Worlds we %live in IMMORAL PROPOSITION First Line: If you never do anything for anyone else Last Line: Egoist is not %good for himself Subject(s): Egoism And Egotism IMPROVISATIONS: AROUND First Line: The pinwheel's pink %plastic spinning Last Line: Blade's reversing IMPROVISATIONS: BIT First Line: De %sign Last Line: Art %e(a)rly' IMPROVISATIONS: BLUE First Line: Grey blue %sky blue IMPROVISATIONS: CANDLE HOLDER First Line: Small glass %cube's opaque Last Line: Clarity in %window's light IMPROVISATIONS: CARS First Line: Flat out %parking lot IMPROVISATIONS: DAYTIME First Line: It's got to be lighter IMPROVISATIONS: DOWN First Line: It's all %over %the floor IMPROVISATIONS: ECHOES First Line: All god's %children got-' IMPROVISATIONS: EGO First Line: I can %hear I can Last Line: See IMPROVISATIONS: FIELDS First Line: Meadows Last Line: More at home IMPROVISATIONS: GHOST First Line: What you don't Last Line: See you %hear? IMPROVISATIONS: GREEN First Line: Plant's tendrils %hanging from Last Line: But not to IMPROVISATIONS: GROUP First Line: Al %aphic %y' IMPROVISATIONS: HELP First Line: This here %hand's out IMPROVISATIONS: HOLES First Line: Sun's %shining through Last Line: You IMPROVISATIONS: NEGATIVE First Line: There's a big hole IMPROVISATIONS: OH First Line: Oh stay awhile Last Line: Some sigh, some sign %I'm still inside IMPROVISATIONS: OLD SONG First Line: Some sunny %day -' IMPROVISATIONS: PURITAN First Line: Plant's in %place IMPROVISATIONS: QUOTE First Line: A lot %of thought Last Line: -ful people' IMPROVISATIONS: SEASCAPE First Line: Little boat %blue blown Last Line: By bay IMPROVISATIONS: SEE First Line: Brown's another color IMPROVISATIONS: SITE First Line: Slats in %sunlight a %shadow IMPROVISATIONS: SPACE First Line: Two candles %light brown Last Line: Or yellow? IMPROVISATIONS: TABLE TOP First Line: Persian's Last Line: Under glass IMPROVISATIONS: TEACHER First Line: The big %red Last Line: Apple IMPROVISATIONS: TEXAS REVERSE First Line: You all go IMPROVISATIONS: THE CART First Line: Oh well, it %thinks IMPROVISATIONS: THE EDGE First Line: Your %mem Last Line: Is enc IMPROVISATIONS: THE KIDS First Line: Little %muffins Last Line: In a %pan IMPROVISATIONS: VIRTUES First Line: Tree limbs' %patience IMPROVISATIONS: WEIGH First Line: Rippled refractive %surface leaves Last Line: Light lights IMPROVISATIONS: WHEELS First Line: One around one - %on inside, limit %and dispersal Last Line: In a blur of silence IMPROVISATIONS: WINDOW First Line: Up from reflective %table top's glass the Last Line: Other side of it IMPROVISATIONS: WINDOW EYES First Line: All this Last Line: Color's yours IMPROVISATIONS: WINDOW SEAT First Line: Cat's up Last Line: On chair's edge IMPROVISATIONS: YEAH First Line: Amazing grace %on willy's face! IMPROVISATIONS: YONDER First Line: Heaven's up %there still IMPROVISATIONS: YOU BET First Line: Birds like %windows Last Line: Table top %persian's %under glass Variant Title(s): Imporvisation IN A BOAT SHED Poem Text First Line: I waited too long Subject(s): Waiting IN A BOAT SHED First Line: I waited too long Last Line: I waited for you IN AN ACT OF PITY Poem Text Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Pity; Male-female Relations IN AN ACT OF PITY First Line: In an act of pity your hands Last Line: Of one's happiness, in one who had held it IN LONDON First Line: I'm going home to boston Last Line: Invites me %the song %of IN SECRET Poem Text Recitation by Author IN SECRET / THE OUT'S IN Last Line: Either way %it will stay IN THE / MOUTH -- A / HAND Last Line: Occupy all %the space IN THE DIAMOND Last Line: I feel the same way now IN THE FALL First Line: The money is cheap Last Line: The wind is sharp %distances increase INDIANS First Line: Big, wise Last Line: In the clearing INNOCENCE First Line: Looking to the sea, it is a line Last Line: Is partial, partially kept INSIDE MY HEAD Poem Text First Line: Inside my head a common room, Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The INSIDE MY HEAD First Line: Inside my head a common room Last Line: If only me? Inside my head, whose face INSISTENT / THIS YEARNING Last Line: States %bodies %dogs INTERIOR First Line: The room next to Last Line: People get to know you if %you let them, nowhere safe INTERVALS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who/am I Subject(s): Identity INTERVALS First Line: Who %am I Last Line: Intervals between %echo silence INTERVIEW First Line: Light eyes would have been more fortunate Last Line: As she told me INVITATION First Line: If it ever is Last Line: Of clear substance INVOICE First Line: I once wrote a letter as follows Last Line: And, why don't you get with it IRISH First Line: Her cunt lifts on a Last Line: You unhappy? IRISHMAN'S LAMENT ON THE APPROACHING WINTER First Line: Hello to you, lady Last Line: Your mind from its mistake IT First Line: Nothing there %in absence as Last Line: Or what %word makes my %malice %more IT IS AT TIMES Poem Text First Line: Of them, undefined IT IS AT TIMES First Line: Of them, undefined Last Line: Reflections, the %golden bowl IT IS FUNNY -- STRANGE -- TO SEE THE YOUNG Last Line: Speaks to %you -- %over hills JACK'S BLUES Poem Text First Line: I'm going to roll up Subject(s): Farewell; Parting JACK'S BLUES First Line: I'm going to roll up Last Line: Gone, like a sad old candle JE VOIS DANS LE HASARD TOUS LES BIENS QUE J'ESPERE First Line: When you said 'accidental' Last Line: And I think things have at last happened which will not go away JE VOUS DANS LE HASARD TOUS LES BIENS QUE J'ESPERE Poem Text First Line: When you said 'accidental' JOKE First Line: There was a joke Last Line: And keep on walking JOY First Line: I could look at JUGGLER'S THOUGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Heads up to the sky JUGGLER'S THOUGHT First Line: Heads up to the sky Last Line: Fields go out and out %under the sun JULY: FARGO STREET First Line: Bangs in street %fourth's here again, %200th yet Last Line: For all these %surrounding neighbors JUST FRIENDS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Last Line: If you look long enough Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST IN TIME First Line: Over the unwritten Last Line: Of this and this, of %all that is, of it KATE'S Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If I were you KATE'S First Line: If I were you Last Line: I bet you'd %do it too KICK / OF THE FOOT AGAINST Last Line: Grease %on the hands KID First Line: The kid left Last Line: A win- %dow %waving KID First Line: Smaller, no recall Last Line: There and forever %loving learned from her %care, bemused %distraction and %much else KID First Line: If it falls flat Last Line: The acorn the tree would grow KIKI First Line: World in a Last Line: Most perspica- %cious daughter KIND OF ACTING UP First Line: Giving oneself to the dentist or doctor who is a good one Last Line: When there is no more sin Variant Title(s): The Kind Of Act O KITCHEN First Line: The light in the morning Last Line: To be like it was KLAUS REICHERT AND CREELEY SEND REGARDS First Line: Nowhere up there enough Last Line: Aged ten forever friend %you'll know all this by heart KNOCK KNOCK First Line: Say nothing %to it Last Line: And it has %more than you, %much %more Variant Title(s): Knock, Knoc KNOKKE First Line: Did you notice all the water Last Line: Again. It's a long way KORE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As I was walking Subject(s): Men; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina KORE First Line: As I was walking Last Line: Leading me %now? Subject(s): Men; Persephone LA CONCA First Line: Sand here's like meal - %oats, barley, or wheat Last Line: Beyond, where sky %and sea meet %far away LA NOCHE First Line: In the court- %yard at midnight Last Line: A man a %familiar thing LADY BIRD Poem Text First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Love LADY BIRD First Line: A lady asks me Last Line: Mine for hers %hers for mine LADY IN BLACK Poem Text First Line: The mental picture which the LADY IN BLACK First Line: The mental picture which the Last Line: An attitude %perplexing LANGUAGE First Line: Are all your %preoccupations un Last Line: Taken dis- %criminating? LANGUAGE First Line: Locate I %love you some- %where in Last Line: Of holes %aching. Speech %is a mouth Subject(s): Language; Love LAST MILE First Line: What's to be said %of friend dead Last Line: Then take deep breath %and cry - %thank god I'm alive! LAST SWEET NIGHT Last Line: Of fortune's attitudes LATE COMER First Line: (parvenue) delinquent, who will now Last Line: The flowers, the coolness, delinquent %(better) LATER First Line: Shan't be winding Last Line: With others %lets mind wander LATER First Line: If I could get %my hands on Last Line: Me something for xmas, %I'll be around LATER: 1 First Line: Shan't be winding %back in blue Last Line: Yard once and for all LATER: 10 First Line: In testament %to a willingness Last Line: Finds a home %on earth LATER: 2 First Line: You won't want to be early Last Line: Blue hands, two doughnuts %on a plate LATER: 3 First Line: The small %spaces of existence Last Line: Common %to one %and all LATER: 4 First Line: Opening %the boxes packed Last Line: Rattle, door %open, never done LATER: 5 First Line: Eloquent, %my heart Last Line: My funny valentine LATER: 6 First Line: If you saw %dog pass, in car Last Line: Lost in the world, %got lost long ago LATER: 7 First Line: Oh sadness, %boring Last Line: Rain's wet, %clouds pass LATER: 8 First Line: Nothing 'late' about the Last Line: Can't argue %with the facts LATER: 9 First Line: Sitting up here in %newly constituted Last Line: This house, this world, %can't escape LAUGHING First Line: Who enters this Last Line: Formed in rock LE FOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who plots, then, the lines Subject(s): Writing & Writers LE FOU First Line: Who plots, then, the lines Last Line: We are moving! %goodbye LEARNING First Line: Suggestion/recognition...' Last Line: There, now here - %in mind LEAVING First Line: Where to go Last Line: But the others %want to stay, and will LECTURE First Line: What was to talk to Last Line: Father's odor %in bed years ago LET SOMETHING ELSE BE Last Line: I will go to sleep LIFE & DEATH First Line: If I had thought Last Line: There was no reason there LIFE (1) First Line: Specific, intensive clarity Last Line: Meager, repentant entry %wants more LIGHTS First Line: I could get Last Line: Here I am LIKE A MAN COMMITTED TO SEARCHING Last Line: Like they say, to something else LIKE MINE First Line: I'll always love LIKE THEY SAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Underneath the tree on some Subject(s): Woodpeckers LIKE THEY SAY First Line: Underneath the tree on some Last Line: Why not, I thought to %myself, why %not LION AND THE DOG First Line: Let who will think of what they will Last Line: But he knows nothing who thinks. They are LISTLESS / THE HEAT RISES Last Line: Is the weather %all there is LITTLE TIME -- AND PLACE First Line: You don't say Last Line: Round and around LITTLETON, N.H First Line: Day/ %diminutive Last Line: (where it makes: the sign LITTLETON, N.H. Poem Text First Line: Day/diminutive LONER First Line: Sounds, crank %of kid's cart's axle Last Line: Wants the dream back, %keeps walking LONG ROAD First Line: The long road of it all Last Line: Where are we now LOOK First Line: Doesn't he see Last Line: He wants %to go home LOOK, LOVE Poem Text LOOKING OUT First Line: Warmth %is on the way Last Line: It's all night %long LOOP First Line: No %one Last Line: Anyone does LOOP First Line: I left it behind Last Line: Like passage like door LOOPS First Line: The other who I'd be Last Line: Of anything at all beyond LOS GUITARISTAS Poem Text First Line: The music is a dance Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers LOS GUITARISTAS First Line: The music is a dance Last Line: Hips, and ascending forthwith %to the mind LOST First Line: One could reach up into Last Line: Or to go forward, having only lost LOST AT SEA Poem Text First Line: All pull together now Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Abuse; Convicts LOVE Poem Text First Line: The thing comes Subject(s): Love LOVE Poem Text First Line: Not enough. The question: what is Subject(s): Love LOVE First Line: Tracking through this Last Line: Change the record LOVE First Line: First love LOVE First Line: There are words voluptuous Last Line: And its death at last LOVE First Line: There are words voluptuous Last Line: And in death at last LOVE (1) First Line: The thing comes Last Line: Somehow immaculate LOVE (2) First Line: Not enough. The question: what is Last Line: Which I have not written LOVE -- / LET IT / OUT Last Line: Everywhere %everyone LOVE COMES QUIETLY Poem Text Recitation by Author LOVE COMES QUIETLY Last Line: Alone all the way Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love LOVE'S FAINT TRACE Last Line: Love's faint trace LOVER First Line: What should the young Last Line: A thing like that LOVER'S LEAP Recitation by Author LOVERS First Line: Remember? As kids %we'd looked in crypt Last Line: Who worked there? Dead %person's fraught skull? MAIN AND MERRIMAC First Line: It just plain %hurts to work - ' Last Line: Ing's gone to %spring's first day MAN First Line: He hie fie finger Last Line: No see before %come down on him MARCH First Line: Almost at the dulled Last Line: We waited for this side %of spring changes everything MARRIAGE First Line: The first retainer %he gave to her Last Line: And lived with her Subject(s): Men MARY'S FANCY First Line: The world pours in Last Line: Felt but endlessly %endlessly heard MASSACHUSETTS First Line: What gentle echoes Last Line: We will talk about all this MASSACHUSETTS MAY First Line: Month one was born in Last Line: School's end. Summer's song MASTER OF ALL First Line: Master of all things Last Line: Where to end MAZATLAN: SEA First Line: The sea flat out Last Line: What do you know MEASURE First Line: I cannot %move backward Last Line: Each for himself MEAT First Line: Blood's on the edge of it Last Line: The last echo it last faint color it %the drip the trace thestain-it MECHANIC First Line: Were we now to fall Last Line: Love, and how much MEDALLION Poem Text First Line: Light, a form, a MEDALLION First Line: Light, a form, a Last Line: Whiter hand, with narrow, arching %fingers MEMORIES First Line: Hello, duck, %in yellow Last Line: Inside out, %little %pillow MEMORY First Line: Like a river she was Last Line: On the whole goddamn town MEMORY GARDENS First Line: Had gone up to Last Line: Take her in my arms MEMORY, 1930 First Line: There are continuities in memory, but Last Line: Being then driven in an ambulance %across the lawn, in the snow, to die MENU First Line: John and I have decided Last Line: I wouldn't like him either MESSAGE First Line: He was wise Last Line: People are %susceptible after all MESSENGERS (FOR ALLEN GINSBERG) First Line: The huge dog, broderick, and Last Line: Bodies, fills them with quiet longing Variant Title(s): The Messenger METHOD First Line: Patterns %of sounds, endless Last Line: Description like %as if then METHOD OF ACTUALITY First Line: The mother (mother) unbent to give to anyone Last Line: My mother's son MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: When the rain stops Subject(s): Rain MIDNIGHT First Line: When the rain stops Last Line: Any sunday afternoon MIND'S HEART Poem Text First Line: Minds heart, it must Subject(s): Truth MIND'S HEART First Line: Mind's heart, it must Last Line: True enough to know %the difference MIRROR (1) First Line: When I see you in the first light, again Last Line: That any god is love MIRROR (2) First Line: Seeing is believing Last Line: Here is the cost MITCH First Line: Mitch was a classmate Last Line: I sat there like a stone MOBILE HOMES First Line: Driving along the coast road Last Line: Decisions, mobile homes MOMENT First Line: Whether to use time, or to kill time, either Last Line: Still, to some other use MONEY First Line: Stand up, heart, and take it Last Line: Here in the rented house on the water %for the proverbial two months, %it's still not enough MOON First Line: Earlier in the evening the moon Last Line: Were there, waiting, alone MORNING First Line: Shadows, on the far wall Last Line: Tiles, watching this light MORNING First Line: Light's bright glimmer Last Line: Blue summer's come MORNING: 8:10 AM First Line: In sun's %slow rising %this morning Last Line: Old woman walking %on street out front MOTHER'S PHOTOGRAPH First Line: Could you see present Last Line: Sit them down in a new house MOTHER'S VOICE First Line: In these few years Last Line: I at least think I want more %and must have it MOUNTAINS IN THE DESERT First Line: The mountains blue now Last Line: And all the habits of it MOUTHS NUZZ First Line: Mouths nuzz- %ing Last Line: Blind %love MOVIE RUN BACKWARD First Line: The words will one day come Last Line: You can 'run the movie %backward' but 'the movie run %backward.' the movie run backward MR. WARNER Poem Text First Line: By location, e.G. Where MY LOVE Poem Text First Line: It falleth like a stick Subject(s): Love MY LOVE First Line: It falleth like a stick Last Line: Yet few -- as dew %to night is MY NEW MEXICO First Line: Edge of door's window Last Line: Sing me a song %makes beat specific, %takes the sharp air, %echoes this silence MY OWN STUFF First Line: My own stuff' a %flotsam I could Last Line: There its only %reality my own Variant Title(s): My Own Stuf MYSELF First Line: What, younger, felt %was possible, now knows Last Line: Deep night %caught them ere evening...' N. TRURO LIGHT-1946 First Line: Pushing it back to Last Line: Smashed, he whistled %out there in the water %beethoven's ninth, we %couldn't see him, only %hear hi Variant Title(s): N. Truro Light - 194 NAME First Line: Be natural Last Line: Be more than the man %who watches Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Parents; Women NAMES First Line: Harry has written Last Line: All they know NAMES First Line: When they came near Last Line: Bottles and bones NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Poem Text First Line: Hippety hoppety down NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE First Line: Hippety hoppety down Last Line: Stone face %is the legend NATIONALGALERIE BERLIN First Line: Nationalgalerie's %minute spasm's Last Line: Pass back of me, spin of wheels, %murmur of their voices NATURE First Line: Out door here - %tall as wall Last Line: Thoughtful, %men's minded %complement NATURE MORTE First Line: It's still %life. It Last Line: Life. It %just ain't moving NAUGHTY BOY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When he brings home a whale Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NAUGHTY BOY First Line: When he brings home a whale Last Line: For uncle jim's deep-fired, all-fat, real gone %whale steaks NAUGHTY WATERS Recitation by Author NEIGHBORS First Line: Small horses on windowsill Last Line: With curtains drawn. %everyone's gone NEITHER SADNESS NOR DESIRE Last Line: Seems the edge: this precipice NEW ENGLAND First Line: Work, christian, work! Last Line: Tonight is the night NEW MOON First Line: Are there still some Last Line: To make it increase NEW WORLD First Line: Edenic land, adamic person Last Line: Foolishness is the price you'll have to pay %for such useless wisdom NEW YEAR'S Poem Text First Line: The end of the year wears its facein the moon Subject(s): New Year; Love NEW YEAR'S First Line: The end of the year wears its face Last Line: Endless black desert, the sand, in the night of the last %moment ot the year NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION First Line: What one might say Last Line: Learn from all %how to be one included NEWS First Line: Unresponsible %people versus Last Line: Niagara mohawk NEWS OF THE WORLD First Line: Topical questions, %as the world swirls Last Line: In this 'world,' %wer eld, the length %of a human life NIGHT First Line: This bluish light behind the block of Last Line: Rides to closes it shuts it finally off Variant Title(s): Night (2 NIGHT (1) First Line: Needs most Last Line: Desire to be there NIGHT IN NYC First Line: Must be almost four Last Line: Years past now %same place NIGHT SKY First Line: All the grass Last Line: Desert %were showing smaller %places NIGHT TIME First Line: When the light leaves Last Line: Day's done. %that's it NO First Line: No farther out Last Line: Than there NO CLOUDS OUT THE WINDOW Last Line: Like old 'romantic' self-query, come of obvious unrest and frustration NOT AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I am embarrassed Subject(s): Self NOT AGAIN First Line: Sometimes I am embarrassed Last Line: And when you come, walk right in %it's I NOT MUCH First Line: Not much you ever Last Line: Of, not much to %say in answer NOT NOW Poem Text First Line: I can see you Subject(s): Farewell; Parting NOT NOW First Line: I can see you Last Line: To go too, they would %have gone with you NOTE READ RE / LETTER OF LAWRENCE'S Last Line: If they make love NOTHING First Line: Ant pushes across rock face Last Line: Still nothing done, enough said NOW THEN Poem Text First Line: When love is for- Subject(s): Love NOW THEN First Line: When love is for- Last Line: Love is forbidden NOW THERE IS Last Line: Still something NUMBERS: EIGHT First Line: Say 'eight' %be patient Last Line: Oct %ag %%on %al NUMBERS: FIVE First Line: Two by %two with %now another Last Line: A way to draw stars NUMBERS: FOUR First Line: This number for me Last Line: One and three NUMBERS: NINE First Line: There is no point Last Line: Is involved %protects %itself NUMBERS: ONE First Line: What %singular upright flourishing Last Line: Talks, leads %a life NUMBERS: SEVEN First Line: We are seven, echoes in Last Line: Let this be the end of the seven NUMBERS: SIX First Line: Twisting %as forms of it Last Line: Or two triangles interlocked NUMBERS: THE FOOL First Line: With light step, as if earth and its trammels Last Line: How he will return by another path after many days NUMBERS: THREE First Line: They come now with Last Line: Here, intangible %yet a birth NUMBERS: TWO First Line: When they were Last Line: Mine, in the mind %to know you NUMBERS: ZERO First Line: Where are you -- who Last Line: When holes taste good %we'll put them in our bread NYC First Line: Streets as ever blocky, grey Last Line: (as size, I.E., all 'cars,' etc.) persistent difficulties OBSCENE POEM First Line: The girl in the bikini, my Last Line: Bland, undulant %she returns OF YEARS Poem Text First Line: Of a few years Subject(s): Time OF YEARS First Line: Of a few years Last Line: Shattered the nigh OH (1) First Line: Oh stay awhile Last Line: I'm still inside OH (2) First Line: Oh like a bird Last Line: Oh like a disparate %small snowflake %melts momently Variant Title(s): O OH LOVE First Line: My love is a boat Last Line: I hold her %in my hand %and cannot lift her, %can do nothing%without her. Oh love, %like nothing els OH MABEL Recitation by Author First Line: Oh mabel OH MABEL First Line: Oh mabel, we Last Line: 1884, my love %my love OH MAX First Line: Dumbass clunk plane 'american %airlines' (well-named) waits at gate Last Line: Be good, broken %brother, my man, useless %words now forever OH MY GOD First Line: Oh my god - you Last Line: Was gone forever, %so they said OH MY LOVE Last Line: This one awkward %fall apart OH NO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you wander far enough OH NO First Line: If you wander far enough Last Line: And they will likewise all have places OH, LOVE, FALLING Last Line: Place %and time OLD First Line: Framed roof slope from tower's window Last Line: Down below. Here is world OLD First Line: Its fears are %particular, head Last Line: Knows, wants in %any way to know OLD (1) First Line: Framed roof slope from tower's window Last Line: Vacuum cleaner, television's faint voices now %down below. Here is world OLD (2) First Line: Its fears are OLD DAYS First Line: Implicit echo of the Last Line: Through many voices-see a blur. %yet you were, you are here-%if I am a fool in love, %you'll never l OLD MISTER MOONLIGHT First Line: Split broken un- %circumvented excised Last Line: Patterns and plans fixed %focus death again OLD POEMS First Line: One wishes the herd still wound its way Last Line: Whether he now went up or down OLD SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Take off your clothes, love Subject(s): Love - Erotic OLD SONG First Line: Take off your clothes, love Last Line: For all we knew OLD STORY First Line: Like kid on float Last Line: On or inside the thing it stood %or was forsaken OLD WORDS First Line: The peculiar fuck it Last Line: Feel of days socks touch %of things said to me %forever please fuck me ON A THEME BY LAWRENCE, HEARING PURCELL First Line: Knowing what %knowing is Last Line: Grow with intent. %simply live ON ACID First Line: And had no actual Last Line: For she me %is not we'll %be ON PHRASE FROM GINSBERG'S KADDISH First Line: All girls grown old...' Last Line: Eat, drink, %be merry, you fink ON VACATION Poem Text First Line: Things seem empty Last Line: Driven by that density home Subject(s): Emptiness; Vacation ON VACATION First Line: Things seem empty Last Line: Driven by that density home Subject(s): Emptiness; Vacation ONE First Line: There are no words I know Last Line: Single - %sees itself so ONE DAY Poem Text Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence ONE DAY First Line: One day after another Last Line: They all fit ONE THING / DONE Last Line: Here here %here. Here ONE WAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Of the two, one ONE WAY First Line: Of the two, one Last Line: Feet the rug bunches ONE WAY First Line: Oh I so %like the Last Line: Just the patient %pace we keep %defeats us %in the street ONE WORLD First Line: Tonight possibly they'll Last Line: A second world war sequel for real, %altogether, now and forever ONE/ THE SUN Last Line: Moon/ one ONWARD First Line: We cannot give you any support Last Line: I cannot sleep at night %if I won't go to bed. %they used to be my friends %but now they are dead OPERATION First Line: By saturday I said you would be better on sunday Last Line: What there is no reason to describe OTHER First Line: Having begun in thought there Last Line: All the peculiar wet tenderness the care %of her for whom to be other was first fate OUT First Line: Within pitiless %indifference Last Line: Things left %out Variant Title(s): Out (2 OUT (1) First Line: Let me walk to you Last Line: We were going %out OUT HERE First Line: Out here there Last Line: Lonely, lonely %without you OUT OF SIGHT Poem Text First Line: He thinks/always thinks OUT OF SIGHT First Line: He thinks %always things Last Line: In the locked mind OUTSIDE First Line: The light now meets Last Line: Who would accept death %as an end %thinks he can %do what he wants to P First Line: Swim %on her %as in %an ocean Last Line: Can walk along P.S. First Line: Thinking of olson -- we are Last Line: As we find out we are PACING AS WITH SOME CONSEQUENT Last Line: Round and round %all the corners PARADE First Line: Measure's inherent Last Line: On the way %much happiness %of a day, %no looking back PARADOX First Line: Looking down at her Last Line: She looked down on PARTS: BIRD AND CALF First Line: Peculiar patience is death Last Line: Puts death to work PARTS: DOG HEAD WITH CRESCENT MOON First Line: Harvested this head's Last Line: Waits patient for reward PARTS: DOG HEAD WITH RABBIT LEG First Line: Break the elliptical Last Line: Friend. Such is being dead PARTS: DOG HEAD WITH RABBIT LEG First Line: Break the elliptical %make the face deadpan tell Last Line: The arc again the light. %waits patient for reward PARTS: DOG LEG WHEEL First Line: Four to the round Last Line: A long way back. And on PARTS: GOAT'S EYE First Line: Eye hole's peculiar framed Last Line: Its own way down to dust PARTS: HORSE LEG DOG HEAD First Line: Its mute uncute cutoff Last Line: Foot's function mind's trust PARTS: HORSE'S BREATH First Line: Had never known blue air's Last Line: On those faint horizons and %nuzzled the mere idea of you- %swapped breath. Oh love, be true! PARTS: HUMAN LEG GOAT LEG First Line: Which the way echoed Last Line: Then man goat become %and dances dances? PARTS: SNAKE FISH BIRD First Line: Archaic evolving thing Last Line: To weather, to water, to earth PASSAGE First Line: What waiting in the halls Last Line: Come and come again PATTERN First Line: As soon as Last Line: Undone. It %was an idea %of mine PAY First Line: Walking down a Last Line: Never seizes %ever says %enough PEACE First Line: Waiting for a bus Last Line: Care, care, care, care PEACE First Line: You're looking at a chopper Last Line: Something or other, and you dig it, %that's it, brother PEDIGREE First Line: Or if I will not rape Last Line: Who am of common stock PEN / THE LINES IT Last Line: Than saying something PENITENT First Line: These, the unequalled, vicious Last Line: The penitents, pants down PEOPLE First Line: I knew where they were Last Line: Want %to go home PEOPLE First Line: Wistful %they speak of Last Line: Truly down %upon them PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR OWN SCENE Last Line: Lean PERSON First Line: Gee, I know Last Line: I speak an english PERSONAL First Line: Urgent' what the message says Last Line: I look at you. %you look at me. %we see. %we continue PERSONS First Line: That this wondering two-footed Last Line: Light fades in the evening always PHONE First Line: What the words Last Line: Say, it's all right PHOTO First Line: They say a Last Line: Of having been there PICNIC First Line: Ducks in the pond Last Line: To where it all was %where it all was PICTURE First Line: A little %house with Last Line: And a faint sun %through clouds PICTURE First Line: Great giggles, %chunky lumps Last Line: Was there nothing else struck you? %no PICTURE (1) First Line: The scale's wrong. Kid's Last Line: So small, %so far to go PICTURE (2) First Line: Great giggles PICTURES First Line: The little bed Last Line: My small cock stiff PIECE First Line: One and Last Line: One, two, %three PIECES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I didn't/want PIECES OF CAKE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Pieces of cake crumbling PIECES OF CAKE CRUMBLING Last Line: Hat, happy, a door %what more PLACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Thinking of you asleep on Subject(s): Sleep PLACE First Line: The wetness of that street, the light Last Line: Now falling from the sky to the wet ground PLACE First Line: This is an energy landscape Last Line: My love in company PLACE First Line: What is the form is the Last Line: Tell where we were PLACE First Line: Afternoon it changes Last Line: Is it weather %like wind blows, and all %to the restless sea? PLACE First Line: ...Swoop of hawk - %or mind's adjustment Last Line: Unthought, which comes %to be the world PLACE (1) First Line: There was a path %through the field Last Line: But only %if someone's there PLACE (2) First Line: Your face %in mind, slow love Last Line: Out there, without you %here, here %by myself PLACE (3) First Line: Thinking of you sleep on a Last Line: Fit for, one and two and three PLACE (4) First Line: Faded mind Last Line: Down the side %of the hill PLACES Recitation by Author PLACES First Line: When I wake next Last Line: Place he %finds himself %alone PLAGUE First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness PLAGUE First Line: When the world has become a pestilence Last Line: As they are still there, we hope, and we are coming Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness PLAN First Line: Daytime %wonder at Last Line: Be also today %and tomorrow PLAN IS THE BODY Last Line: The plan is the body PLEASE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Oh god, let's go Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PLEASE First Line: Oh god, let's go Last Line: This is a poem for everyone PLEASURES OF PAIN Last Line: In a simple fact POEM First Line: If the water forms Last Line: The fashion of a stone %underground POEM FOR BEGINNERS Poem Text First Line: And I could see in the clearing POEM FOR BEGINNERS First Line: And I could see in the clearing Last Line: A squirrel and I ran for my gun POEM FOR BOB LEED Poem Text First Line: O we sang then whose voices POEM FOR BOB LEED First Line: O and we sang then whose voices Last Line: But o and we sang then whose voices POEM FOR D.H. LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: Always the self returns to POEM FOR D.H. LAWRENCE First Line: Always the self returns to Last Line: Alone and unwanted by others POOL First Line: My embarrassment at his nakedness Last Line: A means or time POOR First Line: Nothing's %today and %tomorrow only Last Line: And I was %not alone POST CARDS First Line: Each thing Last Line: Over the hill PRAYER First Line: Bless %somelthing small Last Line: In their simple %feeling for one PRAYER TO HERMES First Line: Hermes, god %of crossed sticks Last Line: All, all the world Variant Title(s): Prayer To Hermes; For Raphael Lopez-pedraz PREJUDICE First Line: There is a despair one comes to Last Line: O is that destiny %she said to me PRESENCES: A TEXT FOR MARISOL Recitation by Author PRESENT (PRESENT) First Line: What is williams' (raymond's) tome Last Line: Present (present) passed away PROBLEM First Line: He can say, I am Last Line: And he says it PROSPECT First Line: Green's the predominant color here Last Line: Down to waiting now apart %from time, which is done, %this green space, faintly painful PROVINCE First Line: Trying to get our men Last Line: Or, something else PROVINCETOWN First Line: Could walk on water backwards Last Line: And all around was sand %where grandma dug, bloomers up, %with her pail, for clams PURE First Line: Why is it pure %so defeats, makes Last Line: Asked of them. I %think the world I think %wipe my relentless ass, %wash hands under faucet PURITAN ETHOS First Line: Happy the man who loves what Last Line: Of him in that other space he knew QUESTION First Line: Water all around me Last Line: Way of where waves of %pleasure it can be here %am I dead or alive %in which is it QUESTION First Line: A description of the sensuous Last Line: Garden of particular %intent QUESTIONS First Line: In the photograph you felt Last Line: They had their own things to do? QUICK STEP Poem Text First Line: More gaily, dance QUICK TALK / THEIR SPEECH Last Line: Whatever %it was QUICK-STEP First Line: More gaily, dance Last Line: Simple time to %all their graces RACHEL HAD SAID Last Line: Seen in being %here among us every- %where in open %wonder about them, in %pain, in pleasure, blesse RAIN First Line: Things one sees through Last Line: And danger averted %sleep invited RAIN First Line: All night the sound had %come back again Last Line: Be wet %with a decent happiness Subject(s): Men RAIN (2) First Line: Thoughtful of you, I was Last Line: These names of people there RE C -- First Line: Making a form for you Last Line: And two arms and two legs. %you'll travel READING OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS First Line: Thought out of self Last Line: The place was determined %the deed was done? REASON First Line: Each gesture %is a common one Last Line: Your face is hurt %all the same REFLECTION First Line: It must be low key Last Line: Reflective reality %alters to place %in specific place %whatcan't get past REFLECTION First Line: It must be low key Last Line: What can't get past REFLECTIONS First Line: What pomposity %could say only Last Line: This morning %again - %so be it RELIGION First Line: Gods one would have %hauled out like props Last Line: And along with them %the possibly still living REMARKS ON GREGORY CORSO Recitation by Author Subject(s): Corso, Gregory (1930-2001) RESCUE First Line: The man sits in a timelessness Last Line: They are running to arrive Subject(s): Time RETROSPECT First Line: Thanks for Last Line: What will be %the memory %if it is RETURN Poem Text First Line: Quiet as is proper for such places RETURN First Line: Quiet as is proper for such places Last Line: To know my door is one of these REVELATION First Line: I thought that if I were broken enough Last Line: Blatant and impossible %to stop me RHYME First Line: There is the sign of Last Line: Flowers, and behind them %nothing RHYTHM First Line: It is all a rhythm Last Line: Light at the opening %dark at the closing Subject(s): Life RIDDLE First Line: What'd you throw it on the floor for? Last Line: Come in here %push me around RIDDLE First Line: What it is, the literal size Last Line: The name and titles RIPPLING EYELIDS Last Line: Long time no see RITES First Line: (hogpen, deciduous growth, etc. Last Line: No man shall be an idiot for purely exterior reasons RIVER WANDERING DOWN Last Line: Aeroplane. Now %be born %be born ROAD First Line: Whatever was else or less Last Line: One grows older, %gets closer. %it's a long way home, %this last walking ROADS First Line: It may be grubs Last Line: To have come to it alone ROCK First Line: Shaking hands again %from place of age Last Line: To be as all reunited ROCKS First Line: Trying to think of Last Line: Think well, think %well of me ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: I THINK Last Line: Was reminiscence %and what's real %is not Variant Title(s): Roman Sketchbook: I Thin ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: APOSTROPHE First Line: Imaginal sharp distances we Last Line: Thought come to unexpected end %here where nothing waits ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: AS First Line: As you come and go Last Line: Of sorts, but no one would think of that. %you come in, you walk to the room ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: AS WITH First Line: As with all such %the prospect of ending Last Line: In time and now, one %says, and now ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: ELEVEN AM First Line: Passionate increase of particulars Last Line: Curtain to let the room out into %place the street again and people ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: HERE First Line: Back a street is the sunken Last Line: Dank stink floods the evening air. %where can we go we will not %return to? Each moment, somewhere ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: HOW LONG First Line: How long %to be here Last Line: Wherever %it is ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: IN THE CIRCLE First Line: In the circle of an Last Line: For the anticipated slight shock- %boat bumping the dock, key %turning in lock, the ticking clock? ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: IN THE ROOMS First Line: In the rooms of building james Last Line: Again in long, narrow, %pewlike seated halls for %talking sit and think of it ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: OBJECT First Line: The expandable enveloping flat flesh Last Line: Opened to anything by impression Subject(s): Discretion ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: OUTSIDE First Line: That curious arrowed sound up Last Line: Opened for the air and sounds %as one small person's piercing cry ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: READING/RUSSELL SAYS, 'THERE IS NO RHINOCEROS IN Poem Text First Line: Wittgenstein's insistence to russell's Variant Title(s): "roman Sketchbook: Reading/russell Says, ""there Is No ...; Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: READING/RUSSELL SAYS, 'THERE IS NO RHINOCEROS IN First Line: Wittgenstein's insistence to russell's Last Line: By opening your mouth and out it pops Variant Title(s): Roman Sketchbook: Reading/russell Says, "there Is No .. Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: ROOM First Line: World's become shrunk to Last Line: Top has place still apparent %whatever else is or was ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: THE STREET First Line: All the various Last Line: Members of the italian %parliament walking %past my lunch! ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: VILLA CELIMONTANA First Line: As we walk past crumbling Last Line: Yourself do you express %when you speak english? %still thinking of it and me now %as well with lire ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: WALK First Line: Walk out now as if Last Line: Go forth or is it %come forth 'come out %with your hands up...' %acquiescent to each step ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: WATCHING First Line: Why didn't I call to the Last Line: Went on while I sat with another %friend under large provided umbrella %finishing dregs of the coffe ROOM First Line: Quick stutters of incidental %passage going back Last Line: Water, empty passage- %way, and no way back ROSE (1) First Line: Up and down Last Line: To come home to ROSE (2) First Line: Into one's self come in again Last Line: I know such beauty in the world grows cold SAD ADVICE First Line: If it isn't fun, don't do it Last Line: No one gets away without paying %and since you don't get to keep it %anyhow, who needs it SAINTS First Line: Heaven won't have to do with its multitudes Last Line: And laughed back %until my mind cracked SAME First Line: Why am I %the laggard Last Line: Putting it %back together SANINE TO LEDA Poem Text First Line: Beyond the road the blackness bends SANINE TO LEDA First Line: Beyond this road the blackness bends Last Line: Each loses what he chooses SATURDAY AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: It was like a monster come to dinner SATURDAY AFTERNOON First Line: It is like a monster come to dinner Last Line: Whom you burn %amen SCALES First Line: Such small dimension Last Line: Opening, high clouds, fresh, %lifting day-someone? SEA First Line: Salt and water Last Line: A lot of boats SEA First Line: Ever %to sleep, %returning water Last Line: Adios, water - %for another day SEA First Line: The wash, the plunge Last Line: (the tears %we declare SEAR AT THE CENTER Last Line: To feel, smell, taste %her flesh SEASONS First Line: Was it thunk suck Last Line: Keep count of time, %say what it's worth SELF PORTRAIT First Line: This face was detachable Last Line: Tight round fresh loaf delivered %come home eaten comes to rest %on yesterday's garbage SELF-PORTRAIT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He wants to be/a brutal old man Subject(s): Aging; Love; Hate SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: He wants to be Last Line: His arms, his skin, %shrink daily. And %he loves, but hates equally SENATOR BLANK BLANK First Line: I look at your Last Line: Just that I'm listening to you too SENTENCE First Line: There is that in love Last Line: Be one's own sentence SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN First Line: They were going up in Last Line: Come on %board you, sail %off, sail off SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: BOAT First Line: Rock me, boat. %open, open Last Line: Board you, sail %off, sail off SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: BOX First Line: What do you think %he's got it for Last Line: Just stand him up %in the corner SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: H'S First Line: Have hannah's happy health - %have whatever, be Last Line: Hannah %in this world SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: PLATE First Line: All I ever wanted was %a place Last Line: Blue plate %special SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: RED First Line: When it goes %that fast Last Line: How fast %do you think it's going? SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: SNOWMAN First Line: Help the holes %be bigger. Put Last Line: And I've built a negative number %times three SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: STRAIGHT First Line: They were going up in %a straight line right Last Line: All else whited out SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ROBERT THERRIEN: WINGS First Line: Those are hills out there %or mounds Last Line: The sand %into these shapes SHADOW First Line: There is a shadow Last Line: Comes and goes it puts %a yellow flower in a pot %in a circle and looks SHAME First Line: What will %the shame be Last Line: What things %were forgotten SHE IS First Line: Far from me Last Line: I miss her, %want no %more time %with out %her SHE WENT TO STAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Trying to chop mother down is like Last Line: I couldn't Subject(s): Loyalty; Mothers SHE WENT TO STAY First Line: Trying to chop mother down is like Last Line: With phalangists for hat-pins. %I couldn't Subject(s): Loyalty; Mothers SHOT First Line: The bubble breaking Last Line: Of reflecting mirrors %water SICK First Line: Belly's full Last Line: Of rubble SIGHT First Line: Quicker %than that Last Line: Hands and knees, crawl- %ing forward SIGHT First Line: Eye's reach out window water's Last Line: Head the echoing painful minded- %ness of life will not see this here SIGN First Line: What you know of me Last Line: In the mind %the body SIGNBOARD First Line: The quieter the people are Last Line: A being nothing there %where there was a man SIGNS First Line: The old ones say, 'the peach keeps its fuzz until it dies.' it seemed Last Line: Men. Dank river darkened in dusk of dead ends. Hits bottom SILENCE First Line: I can't speak so Last Line: Spectrum now out %there forever SING SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I sing the song of the sleeping wife Subject(s): Sleep SING SONG First Line: I sing the song of the sleeping wife Last Line: Who wouldn't even hear you if you asked her SINS First Line: A hand's part Last Line: It was fun. %then it's gone. %come again %some time SITTING HERE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: We were as gone Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SITTING HERE First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: And whatever %we were has gone Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SITTING UP TO FILL PAGES HAVING WRITTEN THE POEM Last Line: Toe now given to eternity. We'll get there SITUATION OF FEELING INCREASINGLY 'APART' FROM PEOPLE Last Line: People after all SKELETON First Line: The element in which they live Last Line: Themselves only, only skin SKIN First Line: You are too didactic Last Line: The three logs there %flames be the invitation %come to the fire! Orange %paled horror I see as myse SKIN AND BONES First Line: It ain't no sin %to sit down Last Line: For whatever. %it's your own skin SKULL First Line: Come closer. Now there is nothing left Last Line: The bird fly off to the opening sky SKY First Line: Now that the weather softens the Last Line: To catch up to you pulled equally by %your securing amplitude, blue love! SLEEP First Line: Matrix of your legs Last Line: Sky grey, the day now %to come SMALL TIME First Line: Why so curiously happy Last Line: And there's still time enough SMELL OF GUM WRAPPERS AS OF SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT MOVIES Last Line: Rapid transit system SMELL OF STALE AIR Last Line: Nor eyes nor head either SMOKE First Line: Again in space Last Line: Fades %away, blown %taken SNOW First Line: The broken snow should leave the traces Last Line: Brought now home SO BIG Poem Text First Line: The night's eye SO BIG First Line: The night's eye Last Line: Love is all SO MUCH First Line: When he was a kid sick Last Line: Away, whatever that old voice %enlarges, so much to depend upon SO OFTEN IN SUCH ROMANTIC APPREHENSION Last Line: Whatsoever was 'rome' was home SO SWEET / THE BODY Last Line: On time SO THERE First Line: Da. Da. Da da Last Line: Let's do it, let's %have fun SO TIRED Last Line: It falls %apart SO-CALLED POET OF LOVE Last Line: Should be different SOME First Line: You have not simply Last Line: Proving it finally, %making sense more %than the literal, %still separate SOME AFTERNOON First Line: Why not ride Last Line: Only the faded %pieces of paper %etc SOME ECHO First Line: The ground seems almost stolid Last Line: A thing in mind at best or else %some echo of physical world%it is but can know nothing of SOME ECHOES Poem Text Recitation by Author SOME ECHOES Last Line: What is left of it SOME NIGHTS, A FEARFUL Last Line: You have only where you were SOME PLACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I resolved it, I SOME PLACE First Line: I resolved it, I Last Line: Walks toward the lights he left SOMEBODY DIED First Line: What shall we know we don't know Last Line: Next, the woman says SOMETHING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I approach with such SOMETHING First Line: I approach with such %a careful tremor Last Line: Love might learn from such a sight SOMETHING FOR EASTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I pulled the street us as you suggested Subject(s): Easter; The Resurrection SOMETHING FOR EASTER First Line: I pulled the street up as you suggested Last Line: Does save, there is never %enough SOMEWHERE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The galloping collection of boards Subject(s): Home SOMEWHERE First Line: The galloping collections of boards Last Line: In the dark there SONG Poem Text First Line: What I took in my hand Last Line: Grows in weight Subject(s): Fate; Man-woman Relationships SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Were I myself more blithe SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: God give you pardon from gratitude Subject(s): Gratitude SONG Recitation by Author First Line: I wouldn't embarrass you ever SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What do you want Subject(s): Love SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I had wanted a quiet testament SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Those rivers run from that land Subject(s): Life SONG First Line: I had wanted a quiet testament Last Line: Which one sings, if he sings it %with care SONG First Line: You look out and you see people Last Line: Is a song %so they say SONG First Line: How simply %for another Last Line: And won't look back SONG First Line: What do you Last Line: Two things %one and one SONG First Line: I wouldn't %embarrass you Last Line: Simpler you %deal with me SONG First Line: The grit %of things Last Line: Quite the same SONG First Line: God give you pardon from gratitude Last Line: With what is easy SONG First Line: Were I myself more blithe Last Line: But god knows useful SONG First Line: What I took in my hand Last Line: Grows in weight Subject(s): Fate SONG First Line: What's in the body you've forgotten Last Line: And/ if the face's remembered, %or dog barks, cat's to be fed SONG First Line: Those rivers run from that land Last Line: For the sake of the tree SONG First Line: Love has no other friends Last Line: No! All vanity, all mind flies %but love remains, love, nor dies %even without me. Never dies SONG First Line: It still makes sense Last Line: And try to be a man SONNETS First Line: Come round again the banal Last Line: You're ok- %but here %you're home, so longed %for, so curiously %without question found SONNETS First Line: Come round again the banal Last Line: While they egged us on SONNETS First Line: While ignorant armies clash Last Line: Have lived with once SONNETS First Line: Someone told me to stand Last Line: The ground I grew up %on unwon unending SONNETS First Line: I'd take all the learned Last Line: Argument a twisting %away tormented unless SONNETS First Line: Me is finally unable having Last Line: Me too to common cause SONNETS First Line: So being old and wise and Last Line: Are from what you want SOPA Poem Text First Line: That old black goober that I ate Subject(s): Food & Eating SOPA First Line: That old black goober that I ate Last Line: To throw it away how %ever dusty SOUND First Line: Hearing a car pass Last Line: My hand writing SOUND First Line: Shuddering racket of %air conditioner's colder Last Line: In mere faithfulness - %sullen sound SOUND First Line: Early mornings, in the light still Last Line: Where the sea is, on that %other side, that outside, place of %imagined real openness, restless, ete SOUNDS First Line: Some awful %grating sound Last Line: All the way home SOUP First Line: Trembling %with delight Last Line: Happiness %delicious SOUVENIR First Line: Passing into the wilderness of twisted Last Line: As we climb the hill for our picnic %years ago SPARKS ST ECHO First Line: Flakes falling %out window make Last Line: Momently, mother, %was here SPARKS STREET ECHO First Line: Flakes falling Last Line: Momently, mother %was here SPARROWS First Line: Small birds fly up Last Line: The coming of each night SPEECH First Line: Simple things %one wants to say Last Line: Who am I %and where SPRING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: These are the places Subject(s): Spring SPRING First Line: These are the places Last Line: Too late, too late, too late SPRING IN SAN FELIU First Line: Think of the good times Last Line: We've gone. But we came. %we've been here SPRING LIGHT First Line: Could persons be as this Last Line: Hovering waiting touch of air's edge %piece of what had not been lost STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN First Line: Point of hill Last Line: Way or other to %come, go with them STAR First Line: Such space it comes again to be Last Line: Stars in the sky, children at play STATUE First Line: I propose to you %a body bleached Last Line: It will have returned to this place STEP First Line: Things %come and go Last Line: Then %let them STILL First Line: Still the same Last Line: Tomorrow STILL DANCERS First Line: Set the theme Last Line: Still dancers under the moon STILL LIFE OR Poem Text First Line: Mobiles:/that the wind can catch at STILL LIFE OR First Line: Mobiles: %that the wind can catch at Last Line: Be not too much shaken STILL TOO YOUNG First Line: I was talking to older Last Line: But I'm losing again %but I'm too old to do it again %and still too young to die STOMPING WITH CATALLUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My love - my love says Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations STOMPING WITH CATULLUS First Line: My love -- my love says Last Line: Make it, don't just flip yr wig STONE First Line: Be as careful, as rational Last Line: That can leave the bones alone, %that can be as it will alone,%and stays as quiet, as stable, as sto STORY First Line: The tall woman wants the tall story Last Line: That ran from town to tower and then to her mind and back %again SUCH FLOWERS First Line: Such flowers can bloom Last Line: Delight in leaves %uplifting to %cold neon or gangling %out toward faint %grey window light SUCH STRANGENESS OF MIND I KNOW Last Line: To rewrite our histories, when they touch upon these things SUMMER First Line: The last waltz Last Line: In a rented house %for the summer only %while the folks are away %and we get to use it %so long as w SUNSET First Line: The world Last Line: Looking after the golden %sun SUPPER First Line: Time's more than Last Line: Theresa's cooked with meat SUPPER First Line: Shovel it in. %then go away again Last Line: I am ahead. I am not dead. %shovel it in SURF: AN ELEGY First Line: Relative to cost, the high fugures Last Line: Stores of the sea SURGEONS First Line: One imagines a surgeon to be Last Line: That grow on trees SWAN First Line: Peculiar that swan should mean a sound Last Line: Of resonances, jarring the mind awake SWEET, SAD Last Line: Waves one watches SWINGING DOWN CENTRAL Poem Text First Line: No matter what color my pants are SWINGING DOWN CENTRAL First Line: No matter what color my pants are Last Line: To have lived so long TABLE First Line: Two weeks from now %we'll be gone. Think Last Line: Simple one. Nothing %more, nothing less TALK First Line: One thing, strikes in Last Line: Talk to, to talk to TALKING First Line: Faded back last night Last Line: Life, still no one TALLY First Line: A tally of forces, consequent Last Line: For whatever rage was once TEACHINGS First Line: Of my grandmother Last Line: She never spoke of him again TELL STORY Last Line: This road %has ending, %hand %in hand TEMPER First Line: The temper is fragile Last Line: Moving in wind and rain TERRIBLY STRANGE BED First Line: I recall there being Last Line: About to kill me %only in sleep safe TESTAMENT First Line: We resolve to think of ourselves Last Line: But its generosity %will know %I don't go %easily %dragging you after THAN I First Line: I'm telling you a Last Line: Who knows better %than I? THANK YOU Poem Text First Line: O kindness, kindness, these virtues are Subject(s): Kindness THANK YOU First Line: O kindness, kindness. These virtues are Last Line: Redundant satisfaction THANKS First Line: Here's to eddie - %not unsteady Last Line: Of the true, the good, the dead THANKSGIVING'S DONE First Line: All leaves gone, yellow Last Line: Now as these days go by THAT First Line: To be always that THAT DAY / IN AN OAK TREE Last Line: Sit in with %such fear THE First Line: The water Last Line: Shores of the world THE ANIMAL Poem Text First Line: Shaking the head from Subject(s): Animals; Human Beings THE ANSWER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Will we speak to each other THE APOLOGY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I think to compose a sonnet THE AWAKENING Poem Text First Line: He feels small as he awakens THE BALL GAME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The one damn time (7th inning) Subject(s): Baseball THE BED Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She walks in beauty like a lake Subject(s): Marriage; Love - Erotic; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BIRD Poem Text First Line: What did you say to me THE BIRD, THE BIRD, THE BIRD Poem Text First Line: With the spring flowers I likewise am Last Line: Implacable, but content Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) THE BOOK Recitation by Author Subject(s): Books & Reading THE BOX Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Three sides THE BUSINESS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To be in love is like going out / side Last Line: There are records Subject(s): Love THE CANTOS Poem Text First Line: To make peace (borso THE CAR Poem Text Recitation by Author THE CARNIVAL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Whereas the man who hits Subject(s): Love THE CHANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: For whatever, it could THE CHANGES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: People don't act Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHARM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My children are, to me Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CIRCLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Houses in/the ring THE CITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Not from that THE COMMENTARY Recitation by Author THE CONSPIRACY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You send me your poems Last Line: If you will send me one of you Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CRACKS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Don't step/so lightly. Break THE CRISIS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Let me say (in anger) that since the day we were married Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CROW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The crow in the cage in the dining-room Last Line: Knowing there is nothing he wants Subject(s): Hate THE DISAPPOINTMENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Had you the eyes of a goat Subject(s): Disappointment THE DISHONEST MAILMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They are taking all my letters, and they Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DOOR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is hard going to the door Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DOOR (II) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is hard going to the door Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DOOR (III) Poem Text First Line: Thump. Thump. The door THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Such perfection Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM (2) Poem Text First Line: A lake in the head Subject(s): Dreams; Drowning; Nightmares THE DRUMS Poem Text First Line: How are you harry the THE EAR Poem Text First Line: He cannot move the furniture THE END Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When I know what people think of me Subject(s): Disappointment THE END OF THE DAY Poem Text First Line: Oh who is THE EPIC EXPANDS Poem Text First Line: They had come in a carriage (which THE EUROPEANS Poem Text First Line: Or me wanting another man's Subject(s): Self THE EYE Poem Text First Line: The eye I look out of Subject(s): Eyes THE FAMILY Recitation by Author Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FESTIVAL Poem Text First Line: Death makes his Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FINGER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Father/and mother Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FIRST TIME Poem Text Recitation First Line: We are given a choice THE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Remember the way you Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE FLOWER (2) Poem Text First Line: I think I grow tensions Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE FRIEND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What I saw in his head Subject(s): Friendship THE FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: I want to help you Subject(s): Friendship THE GESTURE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The gesture she makes THE GIFT Poem Text First Line: He hands/down the gift Subject(s): Gifts Andd Giving THE GRACE Recitation by Author THE HANDS Poem Text First Line: Take the hands Subject(s): Hands THE HAPPY MAN Poem Text First Line: Who would love you THE HEART Recitation by Author First Line: In the construction of the chest Subject(s): Hearts THE HERD Poem Text First Line: Way out they are riding, it is an old THE HERO Poem Text First Line: Each voice which was asked Subject(s): Heroes THE HEROES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In all those stories the hero Subject(s): Heroes THE HILL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is some time since I have been Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology THE HOLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is/a silence THE HOUSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Mud put/upon mud Subject(s): Houses THE IMMORAL PROPOSITION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you never do anything for anyone else Subject(s): Egoism & Egotism THE INNOCENCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Looking to the sea, it is Subject(s): Life THE INTERVIEW Poem Text First Line: Light eyes would have been more fortunate THE INVITATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If it ever is THE INVOICE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I once wrote a letter as follows Subject(s): Letters THE JOKE Poem Text First Line: There was a joke Subject(s): Jokes THE KID (1) Poem Text First Line: If it falls flat Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE KID (2) Poem Text First Line: The kid left Subject(s): Children; Separation; Childhood THE KIND ACT OF Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Giving oneself to the dentist or doctor who is a good one THE LANGUAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Locate I / love you some- / where in Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary THE LATE COMER Poem Text First Line: (parvenue) delinquent who will now THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: I did not expect you Subject(s): Marriage; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LION AND THE DOG Poem Text First Line: Let who think of what they will Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LOVER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What should the young THE MAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He hie fie finger THE MEASURE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I cannot/move backward Subject(s): Time THE MECHANIC Poem Text First Line: Were we now to fall Subject(s): Love THE MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Like a river she was THE MENU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: John and I have decided Subject(s): Haig, Alexander (1924-2010) THE MESSENGERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The huge dog, broderick, and Subject(s): Dogs THE METHOD OF ACTUALITY Poem Text First Line: The/mother (mother) unbent to give Subject(s): Mothers & Sons THE MIRROR Poem Text First Line: Seeing is believing THE MIRROR (2) Poem Text First Line: When I see you in the first light, again Subject(s): Love THE MOUNTAINS IN THE DESERT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Mountains blue now THE NAME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE NAMES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When they came near THE OPERATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: By saturday I said you would be better by sunday Subject(s): Surgery THE PARADOX Poem Text First Line: Looking down at her THE PASSAGE Poem Text First Line: What waiting in the halls Subject(s): Ghosts; Love THE PATTERN Poem Text First Line: As soon as THE PEDIGREE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Or if I will not rape Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Self THE PENITENT Poem Text First Line: These, the unequal, vicious THE PEOPLE Recitation by Author THE PICNIC Poem Text First Line: Ducks in the pond Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues THE PLACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What is the form THE PLAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Daytime/wonder at THE PLAN IS THE BODY Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Bodies THE POOL Poem Text First Line: My embarrassment at his nakedness Subject(s): Self; Nudity; Nakedness THE PREJUDICE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is a despair one comes to THE PROVINCE Poem Text First Line: Trying to get our men THE PURITAN ETHOS Poem Text First Line: Happy the man who loves Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight THE QUESTION Poem Text First Line: A description of the senuous Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE RAIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All night the sound had / come back again Subject(s): Men THE RESCUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The man sits in a timelessness Subject(s): Time THE REVELATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I thought that if I were broken enough THE RHYME Poem Text First Line: There is the sign of Subject(s): Flowers; Loss THE RHYTHM Poem Text First Line: It is all a rhythm Last Line: Dark at the closing Subject(s): Life THE RIDDLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What it is, the literal size THE RITES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: (hogpen, decidious growth, etc. THE ROCKS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Trying to think of THE ROSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Up and down Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE SAINTS Poem Text First Line: Heaven won't have to do with its multitudes Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Nightmares THE SEA Poem Text First Line: The wash, the plunge THE SENTENCE Poem Text First Line: There is that in love Subject(s): Love THE SHAME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What will/the shame be Subject(s): Shame THE SIGN BOARD Poem Text First Line: The quieter the people are THE SKELETON Poem Text First Line: The element in which they live THE SONG Poem Text First Line: It still makes sense THE SOUVENIR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Passing into the wilderness of twisted trees Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues THE STATUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I propose to you Subject(s): Staues THE STORY Poem Text First Line: The tall woman wants the tall story THE SURF: AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Relative to cost, the high figures THE THREE LADIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I dreamt. I saw three ladies in a tree Subject(s): Women; Love THE TIME Poem Text First Line: They walk in and fall into Subject(s): Time THE TOTAL PARTS OF A WORLD Poem Text First Line: The form of the grasses against Subject(s): Love THE TRAP Poem Text First Line: On a theme fantastic, a light THE TRAVELLER Poem Text First Line: Into the forest again THE TUNNEL Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Time THE WARNING Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Love THE WAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My love's manners in bed Last Line: And love her as hard as you can Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE WHIP Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I spent my night turning in bed Subject(s): Love THE WIND Poem Text First Line: Whatever is become of me Subject(s): Love THE WINDOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Position is where you THE WOMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I called her across the room THE WOMEN Poem Text First Line: What he holds to Subject(s): Beauty THE WORLD (1) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I wanted so ably / to reassure you Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Life THERE First Line: On such a day Last Line: Be happy coincidence %just here Variant Title(s): There (4 THERE First Line: Seeming act %of thought's Last Line: You know like %hangs out THERE First Line: With all I know %remember a page Last Line: Blurred content %now loses detail THERE (1) First Line: With all I know Last Line: Written word %once so clear %blurred content %now loses detail THERE (2) First Line: Miles back Last Line: Then %you changed it THERE (3) First Line: There %the wall is at Last Line: Trying still to get out THERE (5) First Line: Seeming act %of thought's Last Line: Gone to hell %you know like %hangs out THERE (6) First Line: A place so %hostile it does Last Line: Trying to %be acknowledged THERE (7) First Line: There is a world Last Line: It's here, now THERE IS Poem Text Recitation by Author THERE IS First Line: There is %as we go we Last Line: Unhappy in its %circumstances THERE IS A SPACE Last Line: Long since, all %there THERE IS WATER Last Line: No woods left %in the surrounding %wet air. Only the heavy %booming surf THERESA'S FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: From the outset / charmed by the soft, quick speech Last Line: Of poetry – was at last mine Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry & Poets THERESA'S FRIENDS First Line: From the outset %charmed by the soft, quick speech Last Line: Of poetry - was at last mine Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry And Poets THEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I wondered what had THEY First Line: What could %they give me I Last Line: Mind followed and %I also THEY First Line: I wondered what had Last Line: One in his plce, an %endless arrival THEY (2) First Line: They were trying to catch up Last Line: For hours and hours THEY SAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Up and down THEY SAY First Line: Up and down Last Line: And never was seen again THINK First Line: Tell the story Last Line: Voice coming back in faded tatters THINKING First Line: I've thought of myself %as objective Last Line: Not to mention the words Variant Title(s): Thinking (2 THINKING (1) First Line: The top of the mountain Last Line: Shift sight to distance, far away THINKING (3) First Line: Grandmother I'd thought Last Line: Shook, coughed and died THINKING (4) First Line: Had not %thought Last Line: He keeps in his head THINKING OF WALLACE STEVENS First Line: After so many years the famaliar Last Line: So it is the dullness of mind one cannot live without, %thisplace returned to, this place that was n THINKING OF WALLACE STEVENS First Line: After so many years the familiar Last Line: This place returned to, this place that was never left THINKING OF WALTER BENJAMIN First Line: What to say %these days Last Line: I know %a story %I can tell %and will THINKING OF YEATS First Line: Break down %'innocence' Last Line: In world's %wilderness THIS DAY First Line: This day after %thanksgiving the edge Last Line: So quietly, greyly, shrunken THIS HOUSE First Line: Such familiar spaces Last Line: You are my mind %made particular, %my heart in its place THIS ROOM First Line: Each thing given Last Line: Room goes on %dark winter's edge %now full with sun %pales the worn rug THIS WORLD First Line: If night's the harder, %closer time, days Last Line: What %matters as one %in this world? THREE LADIES First Line: I dreamt. I saw three ladies in a tree Last Line: Three old ladies sat in a tree TIGER First Line: Today we saw a tiger Last Line: By another fear TIME First Line: They walk in and fall into Last Line: All that was an instant ago %is gone now TIME First Line: How long for the small yellow flowers Last Line: This sitting on a case, this fact sans face TIME First Line: Out window roof's slope Last Line: Fall. Die. Let this son %live, let him live Variant Title(s): Time (3 TIME (1) First Line: What happened to her Last Line: And what happened to her TIME (2) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Moment to / moment Subject(s): Time TIME (2) First Line: Moment to %moment Last Line: Gets done, alone Subject(s): Time TIME (4) First Line: How long for the small yellow flowers Last Line: Stable within the givens, thus comfortable to reason, %this sitting on a case, this fact sans face TIME IS SOME SORT OF HINDSIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Sight TIME IS SOME SORT OF HINDSIGHT Last Line: Down the %vague sides %it %it TIME TO GO Last Line: Were going TIME'S FIXED Last Line: And what might be %still seems to be %a life Variant Title(s): Time's Fixe TINY PLACE First Line: Walking down %backward, wall Last Line: Tiny place %(takes %plce) TO AND Poem Text Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence TO AND First Line: To and %back and forth Last Line: All the faces %wasted %wasted TO BOBBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What can occur TO BOBBIE First Line: What can occur Last Line: Is not its only witness TO SAY IT First Line: Just now at five Last Line: Or mistaken, the arrogance %of trying to, the light comes again, %comes here, after brief darkness I TO THE ONE IN THE GRAY COAT Poem Text TO THE ONE IN THE GRAY COAT Last Line: Signs of inadequate love TO WORK IS TO CONTADICT CONTRADICTIONS, TO DO VIOLENCE First Line: To consummate Last Line: Joy is an issue of work TO WORK IS TO CONTRADICT CONTRADICTIONS, TO DO VIOLENCE TO NATURAL VIOLENCE... Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To consummate Subject(s): Work TOKEN First Line: My lady %fair with Last Line: As if all %worlds were there TOO LATE First Line: You tried to answer the questions attractively Last Line: I think I love you TOOLS First Line: First there, it proves to be still here Last Line: Locked in the awkwardness they mean TOTAL PARTS OF A WORLD First Line: The form of the grasses against TOUCHSTONE First Line: Something %by which %all else %can be measured.' Last Line: To measure %all else TRAIN GOING BY First Line: When I was a kid Last Line: On that train going by TRANSLATION First Line: You have all the time been Last Line: Hear it, must feel the intent %wetness, mushy. I melt again %into your ample presence TRAP First Line: On a theme fantastic, a light Last Line: Again tired. Fastens %on sentiment TRAVELLER First Line: Into the forest again Last Line: The high wide sky TREE First Line: You tree %of company Last Line: You I love %here %by the simple river TREES Poem Text First Line: What shall I do with my friends Subject(s): Letters TREES (1) First Line: Thighs, trees Last Line: Limbs, grows leaves TREES (2) First Line: What shall I do with my friends Last Line: A fearsome hole it is too %a very hell TUNNEL First Line: Tonight, nothing is long enough Last Line: A time passes %love in the dark TURN First Line: Each way the turn %twists Last Line: We will move, and then %stop TWO First Line: Light weighs Last Line: In two places TWO First Line: Holding %for one Last Line: In mind, in %other places TWO KIDS First Line: Two kids, small Last Line: Beyond the moment, %the small minutes of some hour, %like waiting in a dentist's office TWO TIMES Poem Text First Line: It takes so long to look down TWO TIMES (1) First Line: Image %docteur Last Line: Trembling now %throughout %I am here TWO TIMES (2) First Line: It takes so long to look down TWO WAYS OF LOOKING IN A MIRROR Poem Text First Line: At midnight the world is a mediate TWO WAYS OF LOOKING IN A MIRROR First Line: At midnight the world is a mediate Last Line: Is actual, as hard as %stone UNKNOWN SHORT STORY Recitation by Author UP IN THE AIR First Line: Trees %breathing %air Last Line: Keep a distance %recovers space USA First Line: Seeing with sidney people Last Line: When train finally comes in, %there's nothing you're leaving, nothing you can VALENTINE First Line: Had you a dress %would cover you all Last Line: I love you - %that one, my son VALENTINE First Line: Home's still heart %light in the window Last Line: Wanting a meaning %without you %it would stop Variant Title(s): Valentine (1 VALENTINE (2) First Line: Had you a dress VALENTINE FOR PEN First Line: I love you, says the clock. Paradoxically silent, watching Last Line: Morning's opening, here said, again and again, I love you VARIATION First Line: My son who is stranger Last Line: But that he is me, as much as I am him VARIATIONS Poem Text First Line: There is love only Subject(s): Love VARIATIONS First Line: There is love only Last Line: Their definition. I hear %the mind close VERSIONS First Line: Why would she come to him Last Line: Greeted the world with %a faint happiness, %watched it die %in the same place VIEW First Line: Roof pours upward Last Line: Across, just covered by %the light vertically striped %pinned to cross-rod curtain VIEW AT EVENING First Line: Cut neat path out Last Line: The upright space, %place, fades sight, %sees echoes, %green, green, green VISION First Line: Think of the size of it Last Line: What it was or where VISIT First Line: No resolution Last Line: Displacement, %the brutal use %of rational love, %the meagerness %of the intentional %offering VISIT First Line: No resolution, %understanding Last Line: Of the intentional offering VOICE First Line: Bears down on Last Line: Clusion also a way %particularizing life WAIT FOR ME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Give a man his Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WAIT FOR ME First Line: Give a man his Last Line: Home for herself, %I said WAITING First Line: Waiting for the object, %the abject adjunct Last Line: Goes only on to %wherever WAITING First Line: Were you counting the days Last Line: Which wasn't known %over and over? Variant Title(s): Waiting (2 WAITING (1) First Line: He pushes behind the words Last Line: That risk %is all there is WAITING (3) First Line: Waiting for the object WAITING (4) First Line: I've never had the WAITING FOR A BUS First Line: Here's the church, %here's the tower, the wall Last Line: Now starts up, %and we're on, %and we're gone WALDOBORO EVE First Line: Trees haze in the fog coming in Last Line: That's all finally there is to think. %now comes night with the moon and the stars WALKING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In my head I am Subject(s): Walking And Walkers WALKING First Line: In my head I am Last Line: One end of my intention WALKING THE DOG First Line: The one to one Last Line: Get there, poor, %poor dog WALL First Line: Afternoon lengthens like sunlight Last Line: A little ode to much hopefulness WALL First Line: I've looked at this wall Last Line: Shifting blue sky. Faint sun Variant Title(s): Wall (2 WALL First Line: You can push as hard as you want Last Line: It stays limited %to a single face WALL (1) First Line: You can push as hard as you want Last Line: It stays limited %to a single face WALL / ONE'S UP AGAINST Last Line: In the head %that knows all WALLS Poem Text First Line: Walls are relief/in lifting Subject(s): Walls WALLS First Line: Walls are Last Line: Lift yourself %selves, shelves WANTING YOU First Line: Specific light Last Line: Thing %to define WARNING First Line: For love -- I would Last Line: And quick surprise WAS First Line: The face %was %beautiful Last Line: Tried %to please WATER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Water drips Subject(s): Water WATER First Line: Your personal world echoes Last Line: A place one lives in regardless WATER (1) First Line: The sun's %sky in Last Line: Forms, love's %error %in water WATER (2) First Line: Water drips Last Line: That wetness spread WATER (3) First Line: Your personal world echoes Last Line: The obvious obvious, or else %a place one lives in regardless WATER MUSIC Poem Text First Line: The words are a beautiful music WATER MUSIC First Line: The words are a beautiful music Last Line: No meaning %no point WAY First Line: My love's manners in bed Last Line: Let you find a good wife too, %and love her as hard as you can Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Love - Marital WAY First Line: The walls constituting our Last Line: How long looking at what is inevitable WE'LL DIE / SOON ENOUGH Last Line: Die. Dead %come alive WHAT First Line: What had one thought the Last Line: Was it the movement one's own? WHAT (1) First Line: What had one thought the Last Line: Was it the movement one's own? WHAT (2) First Line: What would it be Last Line: Of it all again %and again an %empty ending? Variant Title(s): Wha WHAT / DO YOU THINK IT IS Last Line: Times before %I look now WHAT IS LOVE - Last Line: All a smaller %focus WHAT SHE SAYS SHE WANTS Last Line: She wants she says WHAT'S FOR DINNER Poem Text First Line: Only from the back WHAT'S FOR DINNER First Line: Only from the back Last Line: For the last time WHAT'S TO BE SAID Last Line: Hope only %he was one WHATEVER First Line: Whatever's %to be Last Line: Thinking %of thought %be to %whatever's WHATEVER First Line: Whatever's to be thought of thinking WHEELS First Line: One around one Last Line: All go by %in a blur of silence WHEN HE AND I Last Line: What do you know WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER...' Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A bitter twitter Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Memory WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER...' First Line: A bitter twitter Last Line: Old friends die. %goodbye! Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Memory WHEN IT COMES Last Line: Any more to %anyone WHERE WE ARE THERE MUST Last Line: Was that right WHICH IT / WAS Last Line: Is what we are lacking here WHIP First Line: I spent a night turning in bed Last Line: I think to say this %wrongly Subject(s): Love WHITE FENCE/WHITE FENCE First Line: Particularizing white Last Line: Odd reason so forced %to be seen. It %cannot accommodate, %cannot let get past, %unaffected, any, mu WHITE FENCE/WHITE FENCE First Line: Particularizing 'white %fence' beyond which %the seeming Last Line: Cannot let get past, %unaffected, any, must be %'white fence.' WHY SAY TO THEM Last Line: Become happiness WICKER BASKET First Line: Comes the time when it's later Last Line: In my wicker basket WIFE First Line: I know two women Last Line: And watch the other die WILLYS First Line: Little %dollar WIND First Line: Whatever is to ecome of me Last Line: Of sound and flight WIND LIFTS First Line: Wind lifts lightly Last Line: To drink. The sun %brightens the leaves, back %of them darker branches, %tree's trunk. Night is stil WINDOW First Line: The upper part is snow Last Line: Must all come down WINDOW (1) First Line: There will be no simple Last Line: Fell senseless, with relief WINDOW (1) First Line: The window had Last Line: They say, never quite %come. Never just one WINDOW (2) First Line: Position is where you Last Line: I can %feel my eye breaking WINDOW (2) First Line: The upper part is snow WINTER First Line: Snow lifts it Last Line: If you're lucky, if %world's good to you, %won't so simply %kill you, freeze you WINTER MORNING First Line: The sky's like a pewter Last Line: In whatever time's left for us here WINTER NIGHT First Line: Building's high bulk lifts Last Line: Or pinkish close glow all beyond WISDOM First Line: You could go on Last Line: Wisdom an insistent preoccupation WISH First Line: So much rain Last Line: Might, too, discover %ways of water Subject(s): Wishes WISHES Poem Text First Line: Lunch with its divers Last Line: Less. Nothing forgot Subject(s): Wishes WISHES First Line: Lunch with its divers Last Line: To be left out. No %memory, no thought, %less. Nothing forgot Subject(s): Wishes WOMAN First Line: I have never Last Line: Of it, my skin %drips WOMAN First Line: I called her across the room Last Line: As if her substance shouted WOMEN First Line: What he holds to Last Line: To bear such beauty WON'T IT BE FINE? First Line: At whatever age he was, he was apt with that Last Line: Friends. If you have friends, be sure you are good to them WORDS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You are always WORDS First Line: You are always Last Line: Like dust %from nowhere WORDS / ARE / PLEASURE Last Line: All words WORDSWORTHS First Line: The wordsworths afoot Last Line: Returns me to day %passed far away %dorothy took note, %william wrote WORLD (1) First Line: I wanted so ably %to reassure you Last Line: For another morning %in the world Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Life WORLD (2) First Line: The world so sweet its Last Line: Flat particular light %each sunlit place so placed WOULD DYING BE HERE Last Line: Never go anywhere you %can't live X First Line: The trees are kept Last Line: No matter where it is %or who can find me XMAS (1) First Line: It commonly sings Last Line: This christmas XMAS (2) First Line: I'm sure there is a world I Last Line: Man, santa claus! By %god-the reindeer, the presents XMAS POEM: BOLINAS First Line: All around Last Line: And go find it YELLOW Poem Text First Line: He wants to be an indian Subject(s): Yellow (color); Native Americans; Race Awareness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America YELLOW First Line: He wants to be an indian Last Line: Because she is such a %lovely color YESTERDAYS Poem Text First Line: Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Time; Friendship YOU First Line: You were leaving, going Last Line: Reflection. It was me %and I was you YOU First Line: You will remember little of yourself Last Line: All that is here to prove it Variant Title(s): You (2 YOU (1) First Line: Back and forth across Last Line: Walking. This is life YOU (3) First Line: You were leaving, going Last Line: Reflection. It was me %and I was you YOU THINK IN THE CIRCLE Last Line: Round the whole YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER...' First Line: Inside that insistence - %small recompense - persistence Last Line: Simply, you were never lovelier Variant Title(s): You Were Never Lovelier.. YOU'VE TRIED THE WORLD, NOW TRY JESUS Poem Text First Line: We laughed when he sat down at the piano YOU'VE TRIED THE WORLD, TRY JESUS First Line: We laughed when he sat down at the piano Last Line: And god won't hide us YOUNG WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Young woman/older YOUNG WOMAN First Line: Young woman, older Last Line: Who was to have been, as you %something else YOUR First Line: One sided %battering ramm'd Last Line: In the fat doldrums %of innocent aging %I sat waiting- %thank god you came ZERO Poem Text First Line: Not just nothing Subject(s): Dogs |
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