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A
A bald summer and an empty lake return
A bhudda-man emerged in my dreams.
A clouded day in a warm week
A dancing pageant, or any instance of the beautifu
A full cup has come to me, I cannot empty it.
A jellyfish
A long frock coat, a stovepipe hat
A midnight ocean and a stippled snow
A milkweed has it in it to become
A pony came whose coat was black as pitch,
A psyche's inscape's treacherous,
A purposeless scrub plain laid before the sight,
A rambling meadow scenery
A reindeer head and human breast
A saint is in the eye
A saint is in the eye
A scream arrives
A seed of knowing out of our ignorant fruit must d
A silent fibbing moonlight washes
A slippery sense of mental decay
A snake
A snapping turtle slow and fierce as a drugged bea
A soft possible snow had descended
A spell of adoring April fell on him
A spell of adoring April fell on him
A spider, web, and alderberry bush
A strange, endangered rebellion
A thousand worlds to the unkept minute hasten,
A tree must burn to be.
A trumpet whistles and the slow,
A whirlwind in a Thrift Store assembles nothing
Abandoned by our party in the garden park
Above this town where I lay sleeping
Again and again. The tickettaker's hands are
All my notes so-called crowd to tongue thy praise
All my parts do my pursuit of love betray
All night the grating visions. Curled
All our hours vacillate
All sleeping nature in morpheant calm
All sleeping nature in morpheant calm
All the poets die, one by one,
All these longshoremen of the heart can go fuck
All these longshoremen of the heart can go fuck
All these unlimited ministries glisten
All these unlimited ministries glisten
All these years walking and where have I got to?
All things move in the direction that we sing:
All this deluded elegance's against me. My ripe
All those who in roaring triumph died
All thought stirred to sinning, all sin to have sa
All watch blindly because all are blind,
All's astir. The slick, sick heat
Already this mist's been here three days,
Although my love's made for joy
Although my love's made for joy
Although you shrink in all the world's commend,
Amber uncertainties of day decrease. Cinema skyscr
Among the wrack and disorder of the day: dusty flo
An Ariel Colossus,
An azalea climbed up
An azalea climbed up
An icosoles triangle
An idol
An iris' measure
An old man raving picks up sticks, vitally erased
An unchanging mind's a stone
And Love, ever-renewed, and ever-fresh
And so I have cast you, forgotten babe,
And there was one
And use what you have
And who shall live in these new cities of fresh L
And you shall pay, shall pay,
Apollo and Bacchus hanged in the neon marketplace;
Archaeologists after lunch
Arctic flowers, barbaric sky,
As snow and snow will in snowing meet,
At an unsteering speed of stoppage,
Autumn has pruned your star from heaven
Awake in the backwards wash
Awake, awake!
B
BEAT GENERATION
BLANK GENERATION
Baby, baby, mannikin in the crib,
Beauty of itself is the final shrine
Because I am blind and walk agape
Because I am old and refuse my death
Because you took me to bed, I love you.
Before the geese upon the water have begun their d
Before the nuptials, cymbals, symphonies, hush
Behind a square stucco
Behind which, a manual of technis,
Betraying heroes makes me increase myself
Beyond the bland suspension of a moment
Beyond the fell pace of antelopes
Beyond the fell pace of antelopes
Beyond the paper moon
Beyond the serious torches of several cypress tree
Beyond the serious torches of several cypress tree
Black candles throw smoke to the throne room's cor
Black orchids on the red door;
Blasted rocks and an old warped tree
Blinked, deluded, new-
Blonde tomb,
Blood runs from the torches,
Blows that wind of every sound
Body, body complete as a planet, our whole world
Bonfires
Brain, why did you storm,
Bright beyond belief the morning sun
Broadbacked noon has come humbling among our wicke
Broadbacked noon has come humbling among our wicke
Bronze eyes that stare unmoving at the sun
Build the storm-brought wood till its right to bur
Bullets 'oft gang awry'
Bullets 'oft gang awry'
C
Calmed lightnings in the evening sky
Camus the moody moralist
Can we know a love not inwoven with defeat?
Canadians lap and settle here through the equinox
Capacious imagination's faces fete my famishing,
Casual, usual
Caught in sweat under a May moon's baleful eye,
Chaos is eccentric else, among the green
Clear-headed time at a touch
Close up the grave that called you idly by
Coeval equals, preemininant values the two;
Coke bottles float in a grid of blue joy,
Come with me, love, beside the oaken bole
Companions of my mellow youth
Convalescent thoughts
Cool is the gravestone laid by for thee,
Creative as the curl of candles,
Credent Regalists make the hugest statements imagi
Cross over, cross over
Crouched in the verging shadow of a wood
D
Dad, high on inscrutability and his unconscious dr
Darkness is not
Dead loss, and the blank hours after
Dearest Jane,
Deep between the conifers dark as deacons,
Deep dew fallen on the secret rose;
Deep in ruin the world long has lain---
Deep in the wandering ways of the blood
Defeated by the paraphrase, or nearly,
Defeated by the paraphrase, or nearly,
Delicately
Desperate exigencies of sifted light
Desperate exigencies of sifted light
Did the damsels, in their charged parade,
Dionysus in confinement at the leper's ward
Disconsolate in the deepening weather
Disorderly love falls on our lives
Do not fear.
Do not incarcerate him so.
Do not think my penitential silence pride
Does the moon sail in its sumptuous heaven
Dun Madonna, caped and veiled
Dutch decorations groom the hours.
E
Each day flamed with terror as before
Each human soul
Eisenhower was a rube, I know, I loved
Embryo of blossom is dissected
Empty eyes emptier of thought
Equally the sun
Every day there was a little less of himself,
Extinguish it! Eyes resigned, spirit limned
Eyes that banquet upon every minute that intends i
F
FIRST VOICE
Faith is unnecessary
Familiar as a rerun, he dazzled in the glass---
Far below the cherished wash
Far birds reflect the inner cymbal,
Freedom's womb was red,
G
Ginsolds of the foetid spawn
God built man in a black fit.
God is dead, and I am God, man cried
God, liquor & love
Gold Don Juan in his enlarging pride
Good morning
Great accomplishment great regret has brought;
Green, the pure prismatic color
Gregg Glory's crossing freedoms
Grey, dead-grey & black
H
Half animal and man in my shambling frame
Half animal and man in my shambling frame
Halfway to heaven a hero and sinner rest,
Happily at home amidst a blizzardy haphazard of pa
Have I not, laden with my melancholy
Having grown long words in fieldgrass daylong,
Having joked for so long
He breaks the wind with his shoulder.
He cried to the sun to be no more
He says, What is there besides imagining?
He started with a pebble of conscience
He: And is it in the moment, collapsed,
Heavy, unforgivable dreams, despair,
Held on a vase for all time
Hell is the eye in ruins.
Her eyes intensified destroyed the impossible clar
Her incandescent body
Her silvered eyes entranced the moon, leapt bare
Her silvered eyes entranced the moon, leapt bare
Her untouched vision hurls a dangerous fire,
Here and now the kindly frost invites
Here my winter heart,
Here silk hope crumbled, the rough hand decayed
Heroic creation beatifies the creator because of t
Hey... shush! Rattle
His dusty body goes backwards to be dust.
Histrionic, with a swine's loving heart
Hitler once appeared to me in dream, grim,
Hitler once appeared to me in dream, grim,
Hold my absent heart.
Home
How can strangers love, knowing not your face?
How does our exalted time unfold
How rhetoric-filled the evening slumbers!
How small a snapshot lies in hand
How sweet the blossom shouts the winter's over
How sweet the blossom shouts the winter's over
Hugeappletree
I
I am made Death, and in a breath
I banish all
I come to stare at leaves as deep as snow,
I desire everything!
I desire to cast desire away,
I did not know how clouds could crowd
I do it at least once a year.
I had come too long down my own way now
I had loved him once, and followed,
I had stopped myself at noon, amused
I hate my time.
I have been by your tempests overtaken
I have been by your tempests overtaken
I have been in existential hail
I have come and gone many times
I have thought of heaven, often,
I held my child's hand down to the grave
I keep falling into holes
I kept as solitary as a wood alone
I know existence is a marriage feast
I live inside an icon of despair,
I lived unaware for a time
I longed for something something like too long.
I look into the portions of my thought, cold and d
I never saw the animal
I passed a knoll and passed it every day
I ride the night-yard's rose bush like a saddle,
I see the sweet light moonlight
I see you-- for the first time
I sit in veils of vague glory,
I stare at my figure
I stare at my figure
I sway drunk and liberated from the tin green tank
I took the last, royal step.... King of my fierce
I trod to prison on burning feet
I wake in dark. The air itself seems stained.
I want you to know
I was too cool to rule with fisted vengeance
I whispered a word into the hawthorn's bud
I will go wash; and drown these desert honors
I will go wash; and drown these desert honors
I'd divine the source your rich mystery was made i
I'd thought life without Love no life at all,
I'll resign the moon
I've cannibalized my heart for the sake of a few
I've watched the swan withdraw
I, I am part of it. I am carrying on the
I. Entant with Needlepoints
I. Somnambulance
INTRODUCTION
Ice cathedrals rise to disappear in air;
Ideal and disposable, the idea of you
Ideas are for fakers, pikers, palookas.
If I were the son of God
If a thief gave you his friendship, would you
If after grandeur, disappearance,
If we cry the most exalted sentiments
In Red Bank, painted red, the heat
In Washington, our spiked hub of government,
In any universal force
In her cockle-slip of coffin
In my experience it seems that there is a percepti
In night-devouring pride
In our mutual, mortal
In protestation of his time
In the high tomb, the windows blackened
In the right angle of a fence
In the tympany of the shattering glass there
In this drawing of an apostle's nirvana
In this sunset I am alone among many trees, the da
In this year of peace, thwarted blockages,
In us is only this insistent surge
In zero air
Incandescent will--- to forgive youth its brevity!
Indelible bloods
Is it a death of the self, or of the self's
Is it like a light
Is this hand stopped that commanded heavens: weep!
Is this hand stopped that commanded heavens: weep!
It had seemed a million others had loved best, or
It is
It is night. Date-palms are rocking on the leash
It is the round
It is this common, dirty love of all Man
It lay self-entangled, curled as ramshorns,
It seemed there was a reason
It seems all whirling passions must,
It silvered where it had fallen
It was in singing that he first
It was summer's atmosphere of doubt,
It's been a well-worn
It's wondrous easy some days to guess
Itinerant glory that on the lancing heart
J
Jade-smooth the green
Jefferson and Washington, and all those famous men
Jefferson and Washington, and all those famous men
Just manufactured. Its original skin has been thr
K
King Faad (of Saudi Arabia)
L
Leave off life awhile. It's overrated.
Lenin in his tomb is white and weary.
Lenten spring has come to town
Less and less sure, O soul, the rain
Let Love's lukewarm body lie
Let it come, let it come
Let me not drape with too much dignity
Let your face be my book wherein I'll read
Let's have a game of truth or dare, she said.
Liberty has two edges still,
Life's wisdom
Like a mountain every day my body breaks
Like the flower near at hand I grow
Lillied winds of our adorning blisses
Limelight limbers sleep
Lip to lip and hand to hand we meet
Little mattered, and much pervaded
Lively sings the drilling bee
Look to where groins are purring
Look with me at what we call,
Love and Innocence alone let Duty live
Love and longing live for light---
Love and longing live for light---
Love floats through us
M
Me house gots no door,
Misbelieve me if you dare, o sonneteer, your ghost
Mouth open
Moving among the moon-drained hills
Multifarious on the miniature screen
Muscular terror swipes at our skins
My beloved Enemy
My breast is a burning anvil
My conscience is grass surrounding every side
My grande finale, my goodbye...
My heart the size of an apple all my girlhood grew
My heart's a lamp of red, mirrored fire
My love tastes like blood
My love's more constant than the watery moon
My neon heart's kneeling in defeat;
My silent love is ripped by warring thoughts
My soul, like a wicked father,
N
Nailed longings
Naked angels who watch my spirit, weep
Naked angels who watch my spirit, weep
Newborn. Again.
Night and fire surround a broken tree
No Transcendental Impulse but then
No power moves through the absent womb of world
No power moves through the absent womb of world
Not the politician in his coterie
Not understanding, and wanting to. The edge of an
Not until the September is past
Nothing is in a little space confined,
Nothing under the soul's weary weather
Nothing was there to see,
Now I am old
Now that she is no longer young
O
O I had all of them
O I have been to Lyonnesse
O arrow of constancy
O how has this world, this vacant world,
O love
O the damned inroads of this my conscience
O' sweetest girl of a laughter returning,
OLD MAN Vanquished is the sorrow
Oh let the light be broken
Oh my giant honeydrop
Oh, is he a persian? They have a tendency
Oh, language, why have you left me
On an uneven roof comes midsummer's chore
On my knees I deeply kneel
On undemanding ground
On undemanding ground
Once I was happy just
Once manservant and now no king
Once under silent stars I kneeled weeping,
Once upon a time, I had bruised slightly
Once upon a time, I had bruised slightly
Once upon a time, I had slightly
Once we stole the stars from themselves and named
Once,
Once, walking in the garden by the wood-- so close
One bakes and waits in the roisterous sun
One dark night, unjust soul's repose
One day, cloudless,
One finds among
One has lifted the white boat
One has lived long enough
One mated and angelic eve
One year all year I kept the pond for mirror,
Only the test monotone pattern
Ordained by necessity
Organized neatly between the
Our bodies fasten to whatever's nearest;
Our closed lake lightens against the distance;
Our daily catbird in the parking lot,
Our docks go rotten with the unsold grain.
Our interim swimmer
Our sullen retreat into the ever-there,
Out of time's cramped oblivion let
Out of woman's weeping womb
Over his own heart man strides
P
Pacing the thin streets made long by thought,
Packed into my typewriter day by day, I thumb
Pale wraithe in autumn's fuming!
Panic with her hair outspread
Parted lovers met on life's intervening
Parted lovers met on life's intervening strand:
Pastiche of paradises once pursued, chimeras
Patched out of forgotten things
Paupers in the blood purse of the heart
Penitent skies fall to her uplifted face
Penitent skies fall to her uplifted face
Perfumed Lavosier sniffed
Perhaps
Perhaps my middle-aged spread, love,
Petal falling followed falling petal
Philosophers of stone
Picaresque birds cry hi-yi-hi
Pitching in a hay-cart
Poets of the visionary trade, why sing a day
Prevalent Bliss, kick the sinisters!
Prodigal of laughter, stoned on your own
Proliferate your haunts til they start
Pure squares of Mexican sky ease my exile;
Put mandolins where monkeys are
Q
Raised from the proveless dust
Ralph, the man who saw with feathers spread,
Reason is that which identifies and integrates the
Rebellion came to revolution
Render the promised ephemeral sapphires
Rich in shrimp, and fed fat by feeding,
Riding angel-lambent in cloud-crystal bliss
Riotous in my righteous-eyed rhyme
Ripe blueberries wax leaden on the bough;
Robbed of sleep I can only feel
Roses huff out of the afternoon train.
S
Sand and eyesore verse
Sang the burning lion from the fierce mountaintop:
Say that the sun, bitter pill,
Say whatever turned round in Plato's skull
Sewn together in a pouch of purrs
Shall my love's saying soul
Shards of naked eloquence,
She seemed an unbodied fragrance, flung
She speaks: 'One dark night, unjust soul's repose
She who hesitates is
Sick ink
Sick ink
Simple as sticks, we ignite. An algebra of skin
Simple men pursuing sawn-off strings of sound,
Sleeping in the tender light of alone
Slow and late, with bloodied
Small faces gather at the great, Romantic heart
Smaller than a shut nut in its
Smoky midnight torches slowly enwound
So I might suffer without fail the vengeance of le
So circular evening arrives again
So far from rancor, my ill-abused heart,
So where are all the mad albanians
Socketless and sailor
Softly,
Solemn usurpation of one consciousness
Some say heaven is a rest,
Some with horse-gestures and spiritual breath,
Somehow this minute's perrenial gift
Somehow, having this place so long among pines has
Something about where the pebbled path in day
Sometimes the words come from deep in and are seed
Spider infants float above the noon waters
Spigot says Take that, evil-doer!
Spirits out of remoter time awake, conclude
Spirits out of remoter time awake, conclude
Square sunlight on a square green field
Stand again at the old well-lip
Stand again at the old well-lip
Standing a long time before the pond, in November
Stands in this sand waste
Stars and sand assault the sight
Starting sex up out of books, pale apparitions
Statues rise like specters out of the blank sand
Stirred eyes, lambent hands
Stop, ageless star, kissing my desire
Storms have had passage, and the summer impinged,
Suddenly-- in the middle of what was
Sunset clouds in awakened eyes. Mysterious.
Sweet delight that perishes on the hour!
Sweet was the passion, and the vision sweet;
Sweet willing water of my mother's body
Sweetly beat the bells of St Mary's
Syncopated zeroes,
T
Tensegrity's overrated.
That Lewis might discover
The
The Saturday cold rattles like a candy wrapper.
The Yoni in her rictus sucks
The abrupt dark.
The abyss in the iris
The age demanded an image,
The amoeba
The blue stones
The bluejay in his monarch's robes spills water
The builder of cellos in solar weather
The butler of the weather,
The cardinal his scarlet vigil keeps
The cardinal his watchful penance keeps [scarl
The clematis in my window winds the wounded birch,
The climbing rose upon the tree
The congenital hoarfrost moonlight makes
The crayon-crammed sun, dear,
The dilemma of doing's to 'have done,'
The dogs were in the house and sniffing
The face haunts me. Melts, vagrant ghost that it i
The face is porcelain, sourceless
The face is porcelain, sourceless
The fetus in me
The fish swizzle
The furry neck of the bull is
The gangling legs are absent; nothing whitens
The heavy cannon are shouldering their men
The holly tree
The honest man in the mirror, mundane topic,
The idle angling
The impenetrable monument
The land lies rough beneath the oriental's tread.
The man is statue to the act unfolding,
The mind is portable, and its jar is gemmed
The moon became a motion I'd once forgot,
The native muse of this rock
The neon fire Prometheus stole
The night winds, so big, grow small when you sigh,
The old quarry's flooded echo came back
The one cop
The only political genius to ascend the stage, I
The palisades are golden in this light;
The perpetual distortion and stabwork of the histo
The petty strut of a peacock without a tail,
The phosphorous stars at your fingertips flower an
The pines in their shadows are distinguishing them
The placid green tank rambles against my cause,
The pond is marshy. Bullfrogs visit it daily.
The provident power of hurt and harm
The ragging rantings reach me, from your hand
The reign of the kingfisher was short, and short
The renegade pearl of her conscience unconsumed
The renegade pearl of her conscience unconsumed
The rich have built all the churches
The ritual errata and recovery of existence
The scenery of the ribs is a stage-set:
The scenery of the ribs is a stage-set:
The self-deceiving Eskimo
The silent woman in the church
The sinister is in us, and wins
The sky is blue.
The sovereign Poet, who's awakened gasp
The stars drop
The stars revolve on darkness.
The stilled rose
The storm's unushered, prophetic dark,
The storm's unushered, prophetic dark,
The sun's a botch of blacks, queer spumings
The sun, scintillating cadaver,
The suns themselves have multiplied and spent
The tender wipers whisper back and forth,
The thinking mind in constant delectation seeks
The town blind behind, blind woods ahead,
The undying fires of a perfected opalescence
The unextinguished wave of a tameless strength
The upper pasture gate creaked padlocked.
The vanishing marina sees our backs as we crown
The very astonishing hour has come.
The vision of a voyeur tracing mirrors
The voice that puts my world to worse
The wandering mind that wanders far and late
The wasp is still in the columbine's shadow,
The wasteful sun wakes blinking in morning's weeds
The wind that lashes everything at once
The wind that tenses in the hollow
The world created in an eye of fire
The world enlarged from a shell
The world looks level under my steel rims,
The world must change if we but imagine it.
Their carriages are upright
There decays, forgotten among more meaningless thi
There is no learning but to yearn and yearn,
There's a dark deep down in ordinary things
There's a rhyme at the joint point of knowing.
There, amid the wrong middle of this wood,
There, nimble and fantastic
There, sidewise from the
These cathedrals sunken in the architecture of the
These gifts' attendance now allay
They study at a school
This blade of land
This hiss, this effortful fumbling at the spinning
This is an epic: shrunk, crabbed, and small,
This is no post-mortem, but a moment recalled, my
This is the husband, a stone Ramses head
This is the scrape and scar of disarming sin,
This island man
This lady is dead, I think,
Three dark junipers shadow where time stood,
Time has set his eating stamp on your kind face,
Time's outrageous ghosts, griefs and sorrows
Tired of the afternoon, too tired to rest,
Tis said our end is half-divine
To balance a friendship's difficult.
To sleep is to meditate without a face,
To the lapsing shores of cold criticism I came,
To this true hand giant hearts come leaping
Toiling in dawn's orange forge
Trees that have it in them to be a wood
Tuneless bottles adumbrate the surf
Turning in my mind
Twelve white birds glimmer in a ring
Twenty heaving workers
Twice by speed of love was my message sent
Two eyes followed me out of sleep and dream.
U
Uncompromising virtue, all Heaven
Unerring Newt
Unevenly the party yachts contend
Unlike that yattering Krishna of Indian legend and
Unremarked in fallowest fields one thing
Unscreened weatherworn
Up from the coral came, loud and lost, disguised,
Up the singing stair I bound as heart
Upright in nostalgia's vice,
V
Vanity in the bough
Villains are feted in peeling shoes, and garlande
Virtuous beggars into cold dawn swarm
Vishnu-handed at the last, I watch perched
Visionary excess uprose in the stolen tides
Visionary excess uprose in the stolen tides
Vouchsafe my voice may its voyage make
W
Was it sudden ease, or the sudden cost,
Was there carnage in that shot
Water remembered has drowned the words we kept
We are all in the hospital together... all of us.
We cluck a bizarre patois; rooster-heralds
We do not know what
We drove almost to the mountain-top,
We had rowed half-way over,
We have killed to have ourselves go on,
We have many problems,
We were almost alone
We've been shooting strangers
We've landed at the restaurant. Imagine that!
What
What ache first calls us from rest,
What are we made of who made ourselves?
What feeling gives ground to stolen heaven's hours
What has life's bitter disappointment brought
What has life's bitter disappointment brought
What is finished in the alert swish
What joy departs the heaving night
What love can know its underpinning,
What out of nothingness so soft
What songs do the dead sing, revelling in air or
Whatever sparring light marrs and death amends
Wheeled cradled, blank-faced and blue-brained
When (singing to the silent wide of your
When I came to my laurelled rest at Dai Ichi,
When I truly dream on Paradise for me, how few fac
When I, listening, hear
When Twyla Tharp begins again
When first I put my dreams against the tide
When into the mouth the death cry comes
When love's ripest hour holds discourse with thy f
When love's swelling wound is by conscience pricke
When my voice is a troubled cup
When nothing is left but divinity
When sullied world is gone, or rent
When that the trembling pen in hesitation stalls
When the house stands empty, the rooms disgorged
When we lie with the hot worst of our beings spent
When you are gone my heart is buried
When, all insecure, before howling mountains
Where a single steeple keeps the sky
Where an ArrowLine desert bus
Where are you going?
White sand aching
Whitewashed in our Cuban spats and pale fear
Who can mourn what time has stripped bare
Who had love right in world's history,
Who hears the thrill of tragic bells
Who incised this river here by writing hard
Who told them to swallow down their sorrow?
Why always this effort and effect?
Why are two men arguing at a fencepost? Perhaps it
Why can't each diminished, moroser, I in Me
Winter kills the cruelest of the deer,
Winter's never here at the fountain
With this feather i will smite you
Y
You are the thing I love, no lie.
You can see the earth shake, no doubt,
You do complain upon our time, and that,
You had grown quiet in a snowy field,
You hand me a cup, bland porcelain
You have gone, you have gone
You into every raging ache of nature
You stood up, and the world rose with you!
You've aged me one million this minute, my dear.
You, who section out the broken