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 ...
There is this sunny place where I imagine him.A park on a hill whose grass wants to turnInto dust, & ...
Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboardCompose the dark, composeThe illiterate summer sky & its stars as they appearOne by one, ...
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 ...
My poem would eat nothing.I tried giving it waterbut it said no, worrying me.Day after day,I held it up to the ...
Each day I go further into the woods.They fall before me like a roadWithout stars, and without a curve.It goes ...
My poem would eat nothing. I tried giving it water but it said no, worrying me. Day after day, I ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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