Fish (Larry Levis Poems)
The cop holds me up like a fish;he feels the huge bonessurrounding my eyes,and he runs a thumb under them,lifting ...
The cop holds me up like a fish;he feels the huge bonessurrounding my eyes,and he runs a thumb under them,lifting ...
Is it peace,Is it a philosopher's honeymoon, one findsOn the dump?-Wallace StevensOut of the cracks of cups and their handles, ...
First I forgot you in your voice.If you were talking to me now,here by my side,I would ask, "Who's there?"Then ...
HARD to wait for the postman's trampUp the snowy walk, for the hand that gropesDeep in his pack, while the ...
Light mist envelopes the dim moon and bright flowers,A perfect night to go to her darling's side.In stocking soles, she ...
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days"O, Festus Dies Hominis!"-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss ...
Old Grey Squirrel might have been Almost anything —Might have been a soldier, sailor, Tinker, tailor(Never a beggar-man, ...
HOW cold are the dead in the depths of the grave, Still and dark is their gloomy abode;And long ...
Is it all in the envelope holding your pay?Is that all you're working for day after day?Are you getting no ...
(With deep bows to Adelaide Anne Proctor's heirs, administrators and assigns.)Before I trust my ...
Whither wouldst thou, restless Spirit?Why so ill content to stay?Ne'er was night so long and gloomy,But it yielded to the ...
Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting you were beautiful; goodbye, Miami Beach urologist, ...
A shadowlike pair fraternal twins on the western bank of the Sugar River one white, one seemingly gray in the ...
Pictures from another life, of other lives, forgotten and remembered fell from the boxes, from the envelopes from among the ...
Maybe those who believe A piece of your soul Is stolen with each photograph taken Are right Reflecting back over ...
Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling ...
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record? The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the ...
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
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