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 ...
In the background, a few shacks & overturned cartsAnd a gray sky holding the singular pallor of Lent.And here the ...
The brow of a horse in that moment whenThe horse is drinking water so deeply from a troughIt seems to ...
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...
There is this sunny place where I imagine him.A park on a hill whose grass wants to turnInto dust, & ...
My father once broke a man's handOver the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill ...
My youth? I hear it mostly in the long, volleyingEchoes of billiards in the pool hall whereI spent it all, ...
All winterThe trees held up their silent hivesAs if they mattered.But on one main street of bars and lights,I watched ...
No matter how hard I listen, the wind speaksOne syllable, which has no comfort in it--Only a rasping of air ...
Someday, when you are twenty-four and walking throughThe street of a foreign city...Let me go with you a little way,Let ...
There are places where the eye can starve, But not here. Here, for example, is The Piazza Navona, & here ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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