In 1969 (Larry Levis Poems)
Some called it the Summer of Love, & although the clustered,Motionless leaves that overhung the streets looked the sameAs ever, ...
Some called it the Summer of Love, & although the clustered,Motionless leaves that overhung the streets looked the sameAs ever, ...
He reads my latest attempt at a poemand is silent for a long time, until it feelslike that night we ...
What you have heard is true. I was in his house.His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. Hisdaughter ...
We shall appear on television,we the fit and able.We shall usher this poor wreckinto a sealed room.We'll ask him:So, you're ...
The man who had never heard of Frank Sinatra: he livedA perfectly ordinary life in America. Born in 1915,He followed ...
In the skull kept on the desk.In the spider-pod in the dust.Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves,Or nowhere. And if ...
"1.WARMING UP THE BOXdelivered on time to persons with city & state line bearing only the words DEATH CITY - ...
Mary stood in the kitchenBaking a loaf of bread.An angel flew in the window'We've a job for you,' he said.'God ...
On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear. On yardbird corners of parkerflights to sound filled pockets ...
the sky sinks its blue teeth into the mountains. Rising on pure will (the lurch & lift-off, the sudden swing ...
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
Above the noise in the room below the sound of the television, the game, the laughter of our five-year old ...
A small solitary island without television, phone without running water But it had the call of the loon the splash ...
What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. ...
He reads my latest attempt at a poem and is silent for a long time, until it feels like that ...
I Everyone has their own peculiar price, not quantifiable in currency. When my hypodermic grazed your vein, you confessed yours. ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
As he grew famousâ?"ah, but what is fame?â?" he lost his old obsession with his name, things seemed to matter ...
At one end of the couch you sit, mute as a pillow tossed onto the upholstery. I watch you sometimes ...
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings -- they cause the eyes to ...
I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the ...
That afternoon the dream of the toads rang through the elms by Little River and affected the thoughts of men, ...
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious ...
My friends all know that I am shy, But the chipmunk is twice and shy and I. He moves with ...
Striding through the gates of learning, Wrapped warmly in her black abaya, Modestly cloaked head to toe, Not a hair ...
we are succulents our cool jade arms open over clean tables our fine bone china minds pull the strings of ...
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
1 We live here because the houses are clean, the lawns run right to the street and the streets run ...
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