September 1961 (Denise Levertov Poem)
This is the year the old ones, the old great ones leave us alone on the road. The road leads ...
This is the year the old ones, the old great ones leave us alone on the road. The road leads ...
(For S. M. L.) I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea, But it ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures" Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well ...
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
I planted my grief in freshly turned earth A tree grows there now You should see the size of it ...
I heave my morning like a sack of signs that don't appear, say August, August, takes me back... That it ...
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches, repeats old ...
lemons don't let you admire yourself too much they stick from their tree like awkward thoughts demanding a truth be ...
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for ...
The flyer at the store a new zoo in town I loaded up my monster truck Almost ran over the ...
Anthony, Oh Anthony Why didn't you pass the test At the wheel Crash, "not exactly" Red stuff on the water ...
Thus Spake Mary Reilly, "Respondeat Superior, My Ass - Sue 'em All" Sue 'em Sue them all damn it Someone ...
He pushed her away again Forced her out, bag and baggage U-Haul and truck A chapter closed If she lets ...
Like an army general on parade reviewing the troops in the convoy tooling down the highway into battle I drove ...
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
I'll tell you the tale of an old country pub As fancied itself up to date, It had the word ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
"When I hit her on the head, it was good, and then I did it to her a couple of ...
Ophelia puked hourly dawn till dusk, retching mucous slobber, then spewing air. Scum that I am, I never stopped thinking ...
It was a storefront for a small-time numbers runner, pretending to be some sort of grocery. Coffeemakers and Bustello cans ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstill horrible Henry, foaming. Fan their way toward him who will in the ...
she was hot, she was so hot I didn't want anybody else to have her, and if I didn't get ...
I walk among the rows of bowed heads-- the children are sleeping through fourth grade so as to be ready ...
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
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