The Ball Poem (John Berryman Poems)
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,What, what is he to do? I saw it goMerrily bouncing, ...
John Berryman Poems (270 Poems)
Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji (John Berryman Poems)
The taxi makes the vegetables fly.'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait.Past the bright lake up into the temple,shoes off, andmy ...
Dream Song 96: Under the table, no. That last was stunning (John Berryman Poems)
Under the table, no. That last was stunning,that flagon had breasts. Some men grow down cursed.Why drink so, two days ...
Dream Song 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy (John Berryman Poems)
Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world& shaved & swung his barbells, duded Henry upand p.a.'d poor thousands of ...
Dream Song 115: Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new (John Berryman Poems)
Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new:a stale cake sold to kids, a 7-foot weedinside in the ...
Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld (John Berryman Poems)
or Amy Vladeck or Riva FreifeldThat isna Henry limping. That's a hobbleclapped on mere Henry by the most high GODfor ...
Dream Song 110: It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that (John Berryman Poems)
It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that.My own clouds darkening hung.Besides, it wasn't serious.They took them ...
Dream Song 4: Filling her compact & delicious body (John Berryman Poems)
Filling her compact & delicious bodywith chicken páprika, she glanced at metwice.Fainting with interest, I hungered backand only the fact ...
Dream Song 99: Temples (John Berryman Poems)
He does not live here but it is the god.A priest tools in a top his motorbike.You do not enter.Us ...
Dream Song 53: He lay in the middle of the world, and twicht (John Berryman Poems)
He lay in the middle of the world, and twicht.More Sparine for Pelides,human (half) & down here as he is,with ...
Dream Song 224: Lonely in his great age (John Berryman Poems)
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Dream Song 265: I don’t know one damned butterfly from another (John Berryman Poems)
I don't know one damned butterfly from anothermy ignorance of the stars is formidable,also of dogs & fernsexcept that around ...
Dream Song 24: Oh servant Henry lectured till (John Berryman Poems)
Oh servant Henry lectured tillthe crows commenced and thenhe bulbed his voice & lectured on some more.This happened again & ...
Dream Song 6: A Capital at Wells (John Berryman Poems)
During the father's walking-how he lookdown by now in soft boards, Henry, passand what he feel or no, who know?-as ...
Dream Song 92: Room 231: the fourth week (John Berryman Poems)
Something black somewhere in the vistas of his heart.Tulips from Tates teazed Henry in the moodto be a tulip and ...
Dream Song 59: Henry’s Meditation in the Kremlin (John Berryman Poems)
Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giraldain a land no crueller, and over the wallsto domes & river lookfrom ...
Dream Song 136: While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henry (John Berryman Poems)
While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henrystudied the Torah, writing commentariesmore likely to be burnt than printed.It was rumoured ...
Dream Song 38: The Russian grin bellows his condolence (John Berryman Poems)
The Russian grin bellows his condolencetó the family: ah but it's Kay,& Ted, & Chris & Anne,Henry thinks of: who ...
Dream Song 124:” Behold I bring you tidings of great joy” (John Berryman Poems)
Behold I bring you tidings of great joy-especially now that the snow & gale are still-for Henry is delivered.Not only ...
The Traveller (John Berryman Poems)
They pointed me out on the highway, and they said'That man has a curious way of holding his head.'They pointed ...
Dream Song 7: ‘The Prisoner of Shark Island’ with Paul Muni (John Berryman Poems)
Henry is old, old; for Henry remembersMr Deeds' tuba, & the Cameo,& the race in Ben Hur,—The Lost World, with ...
Dream Song 46 (John Berryman Poems)
I am, outside. Incredible panic rules.People are blowing and beating each other without mercy.Drinks are boiling. Iceddrinks are boiling. The ...
Dream Song 324 (John Berryman Poems)
Henry in Ireland to Bill underground:Rest well, who worked so hard, who made a good soundconstantly, for so many years:your ...
Dream Song 100: How this woman came by the courage (John Berryman Poems)
How this woman came by the courage, how she gotthe courage, Henry bemused himself in a frantic hotnight of the ...
Dream Song 88: Op. posth. no. 11 (John Berryman Poems)
In slack times visit I the violent deadand pick their awful brains. Most seem to feelnothing is secret moreto my ...
Dream Song 26: The glories of the world struck me (John Berryman Poems)
The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.-What happen then, Mr Bones?if be you cares to say.-Henry. ...
Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I (John Berryman Poems)
As a kid I believed in democracy: I'saw no alternative'-teaching at The Big Place I ahput it in practice:we'd time ...
Dream Song 117: Disturbed, when Henry’s love returned with a hubby (John Berryman Poems)
Disturbed, when Henry's love returned with a hubby,—I see that, Henry, I don't put that down,—he thought he had to ...
Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back (John Berryman Poems)
He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stairwhere her papa ...
Dream Song 107: Three ‘coons come at his garbage. He be cross (John Berryman Poems)
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross,I figuring porcupine & took Sir pokerunbarring Mr door,& then screen door. ...