Larry Levis Poems (34 Poems)
Elegy For Whatever Had A Pattern In It (Larry Levis Poems)
Now that the Summer of Love has become the moss of tunnelsAnd the shadowy mouths of tunnels & all the tunnels lead into the city, I’m going to put the one largely forgotten, swaying figure of Ediesto HuertaRight in front … Continue reading
As It Begins With A Brush Stroke On A Snare Drum (Larry Levis Poems)
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath a kind of lacqueredstillness, &, for a while,I did not even notice the pigeons lifting above the sad tilesof churches, … Continue reading
The Assimilation Of The Gypsies (Larry Levis Poems)
In the background, a few shacks & overturned cartsAnd a gray sky holding the singular pallor of Lent.And here the crowd of onlookers, though a few of themMust be intimate with the victim,Have been advised to keep their distance.The young … Continue reading
At The Grave Of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans (Larry Levis Poems)
for Gerald Stern At sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influenceThat the overcast light, making the trash of addicts & sunbathers suddenly clearerOn the paths of the city park, seemed death itself spreading its shadeOver the leaves, the swan … Continue reading
Anastasia & Sandman (Larry Levis Poems)
The brow of a horse in that moment whenThe horse is drinking water so deeply from a troughIt seems to inhale the water, is holy. I refuse to explain. When the horse had gone the water in the trough,All through … Continue reading
Elegy With A Bridle In Its Hand (Larry Levis Poems)
One was a bay cowhorse from Piedra & the other was a washed out palominoAnd both stood at the rail of the corral & both went on agingIn each effortless tail swish, the flies rising, then congregating again Around their … Continue reading
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex (Larry Levis Poems)
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, swollen, leaden-eyed head of Goliath,And left the eyelids slightly open, & left on the face of David a look of … Continue reading
Elegy For Poe With The Music Of A Carnival Inside It (Larry Levis Poems)
There is this sunny place where I imagine him.A park on a hill whose grass wants to turnInto dust, & would do so if it weren’tFor the rain, & the fact that it is only grassThat keeps the park from … Continue reading
To A Wren On Calvary (Larry Levis Poems)
“Prince Jesus, crush those bastards . . .”-Fran (Larry Levis)
Elegy With A Chimneysweep Falling Inside It (Larry Levis Poems)
Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboardCompose the dark, composeThe illiterate summer sky & its stars as they appear One by one, above the schoolyard. If the soul had a written history, nothing would have happened:A bird would still be riding … Continue reading
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