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 ...
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
for Gerald SternAt sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influenceThat the overcast light, making the trash of addicts & ...
The brow of a horse in that moment whenThe horse is drinking water so deeply from a troughIt seems to ...
One was a bay cowhorse from Piedra & the other was a washed out palominoAnd both stood at the rail ...
There is this sunny place where I imagine him.A park on a hill whose grass wants to turnInto dust, & ...
I lay my head sideways on the desk,My fingers interlocked under my cheekbones,My eyes closed. It was a three-room schoolhouse,White, ...
My father once broke a man's handOver the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill ...
All winterThe trees held up their silent hivesAs if they mattered.But on one main street of bars and lights,I watched ...
-for John Berryrnan-Is dog eat dog out dere'-Big Business, Mr. Bones.You know what I'm doing now? I'm watching the CompletePoems ...
The cop holds me up like a fish;he feels the huge bonessurrounding my eyes,and he runs a thumb under them,lifting ...
Toad, hog, assassin, mirror. Some of its favorite words, which are breath. Or handwriting: the long tail of the 'y' ...
At Wilshire & Santa Monica I saw an opossumTrying to cross the street. It was late, the streetWas brightly lit, ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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