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    New and Selected Poems

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    Ever So Tragic, [>]

      “Everybody knows the story . . . , [>]

      Everything about you, [>]

      Everything you didn’t understand, [>]

      Every worm is a martyr, [>]

      Explaining a Few Things, [>]

      Extraordinary efforts are being made, [>]

      Eyes Fastened with Pins, [>]

      Factory, [>]

      Father-confessor, [>]

      Father studied theology through the mail, [>]

      Fear, [>]

      Fear passes from man to man, [>]

      February, [>]

      Figure or figures unknown, [>]

      Filthy Landscape, [>]

      First Frost, [>]

      First Thing in the Morning, [>]

      Five, six chairs piled up in the yard, [>]

      Folk Songs, [>]

      For imaginary visitors, I had a chair, [>]

      Fork, [>]

      For surely, there’s no difficulty in understanding, [>]

      For the Sake of Amelia, [>]

      For the Very Soul of Me, [>]

      For those troubled in mind, [>]

      Four of them holding hands like a family, [>]

      Friends of the small hours of the night:, [>]

      Frightening Toys, [>]

      From the closed, block-long post office, [>]

      From the heel, [>]

      Furniture Mover, [>]

      Gallows Etiquette, [>]

      Ghosts, [>]

      Ghost stories written as algebraic . . . , [>]

      Give me a long dark night and no sleep, [>]

      God’s refuted but the devil’s not, [>]

      Go inside a stone, [>]

      Grandma laughing on her deathbed, [>]

      Grandmothers who wring the necks, [>]

      Grandpa’s Spells, [>]

      Grayheaded Schoolchildren, [>]

      Gray sewage bubbling up out of street sewers, [>]

      Great are the Hittites, [>]

      Green Buddhas, [>]

      Grocery, [>]

      Hangs by a thread—, [>]

      Haunted Mind, [>]

      Have You Met Miss Jones?, [>]

      Head of a Doll, [>]

      Heart—as in Latin pop songs, [>]

      Heavy mirror carried, [>]

      He gives excellent advice by example, [>]

      He held the beast of the Apocalypse . . . , [>]

      He is thinking of us, [>]

      He let the whole world know, [>]

      Help me to find what I’ve lost, [>]

      Help Wanted, [>]

      Here’s a woman’s black glove, [>]

      He took a flea, [>]

      He was kneeling down to tie his shoes, which she mistook for a proposal of marriage, [>]

      He was writing the History of Optimism, [>]

      History, [>]

      History practicing its scissor-clips, [>]

      Hotel Insomnia, [>]

      Hotel Starry Sky, [>]

      House of Cards, [>]

      How much death works, [>]

      Hurricane Season, [>]

      I accused History of gluttony;, [>]

      I am the last Napoleonic . . . , [>]

      I believe in the soul; so far, [>]

      Icarus’s Dog, [>]

      I could’ve been that kid, [>]

      I didn’t notice, [>]

      I failed miserably at imagining nothing, [>]

      I found a key, [>]

      If you didn’t see the six-legged dog, [>]

      I grew up bent over, [>]

      I had a small, nonspeaking part, [>]

      I hate to hear birds sing, [>]

      I have. At the funeral, [>]

      I have my excuse, Mr. Death, [>]

      I left parts of myself everywhere, [>]

      I liked my little hole, [>]

      I like it when, [>]

      I’ll go to the island of Cythera, [>]

      I love breasts, hard, [>]

      I love to stay in bed, [>]

      I’m Charles, [>]

      I’m going over to see what those weeds, [>]

      I miss you winter evenings, [>]

      I’m just a storefront dentist, [>]

      Imported Novelties, [>]

      I’m still living at all the old addresses, [>]

      I’m telling you, this was the real thing, the same one they kicked out of Aesthetics, told her she didn’t exist!, [>]

      I’m the furtive inspector of dimly lit corridors, [>]

      In a Dark House, [>]

      In a neighborhood once called Hell’s Kitchen, [>]

      I never gave them a thought. Years had gone by, [>]

      I never run into anyone from the old days, [>]

      In his fear of solitude, he made us, [>]

      In India I was greatly taken up, [>]

      In Midsummer Quiet, [>]

      In my great-grandmother’s time, [>]

      In my long late-night talks with the jailers, [>]

      In Praise of Worms, [>]

      In pursuit of happiness, you may yet, [>]

      In Rome, on the street of that name, [>]

      In San Francisco, that winter, [>]

      In summer’s idle time, [>]

      In That Big House, [>]

      In the Afternoon, [>]

      In the Egyptian Wing of the Museum, [>]

      In the fine print of her face, [>]

      In the frying pan, [>]

      In the Junk Store, [>]

      In the Library, [>]

      In the Planetarium, [>]

      In the Street, [>]

      In the woods one fair Sunday, [>]

      Invention of Nothing, [>]

      I only have a measly ant, [>]

      I only have faith in you, Mr. Worm, [>]

      I preferred the fleeting, [>]

      I saw a high window struck blind, [>]

      I say to the lead, [>]

      Is that foolish youth still sawing, [>]

      It hangs from heaven to earth, [>]

      It isn’t the body, [>]

      It likes empty churches, [>]

      It’ll be a while before my friends, [>]

      It looks so dark the end of the world may be near, [>]

      It makes my heart glad to hear one of these, [>]

      It must have a reason for concealing, [>]

      It never had a name, [>]

      It occurs to me now, [>]

      It seemed the kind of life we wanted, [>]

      It’s just a boarded-up shack with a steeple, [>]

      It’s like fishing in the dark, [>]

      It’s Mr. Brown looking much better, [>]

      It snows, [>]

      It was always here, [>]

      It was early one Sunday morning, [>]

      It was the epoch of the masters . . . , [>]

      “I was lucky to have a Bible with me, [>]

      I was stolen by the gypsies . . . , [>]

      I, who am only an incomprehensible, [>]

      Jackstraws, [>]

      Juggler of hats and live hand grenades, [>]

      Just as the world was ending, [>]

      Just so that each stark, [>]

      Knife, [>]

      Labor and Capital, [>]

      Late Arrival, [>]

      Late Call, [>]

      Late September, [>]

      Late Train, [>]

      Lay the knife and fork by your plate, [>]

      Leaves, [>]

      Lewis and Clark, [>]

      Like those who were eyewitnesses, [>]

      Lingering Ghosts, [>]

      Listen, [>]

      Little candy in death’s candy shop, [>]

      Little Unwritten Book, [>]

      Lost Glove, [>]

      Lots of people around here . . . , [>]

      Love Flea, [>]

      Lover of endless disappointments . . . , [>]

      Lovers hold hands in never-opened novels, [>]

      Lovers who take pleasure, [>]

      Madame Gabrielle, were you really French?, [>]

      Madame Thebes, [>]

      Madmen Are Running the World, [>]

      Madonnas Touched Up with Goatees, [>]

      Margaret
    was copying a recipe . . . , [>]

      Marina’s Epic, [>]

      Master of Disguises, [>]

      Memories of the Future, [>]

      Midpoint, [>]

      Millions of empty rooms with TV sets turned on, [>]

      Millions were dead; everybody was innocent, [>]

      Minds Roaming, [>]

      Minister of our coming doom, preaching, [>]

      Miracle Glass Co., [>]

      Mirrors at 4 A.M., [>]

      Missing Child, [>]

      Monk at the Five Spot, [>]

      Monumental, millennial decrepitude, [>]

      Most ancient Metaphysics (poor Metaphysics!), [>]

      Mother Tongue, [>]

      Mummy’s Curse, [>]

      Munching on pages edged in gold, [>]

      My Beloved, [>]

      My beloved, you who spend your nights, [>]

      My chicken soup thickened with pounded young almonds, [>]

      My dear trees, I no longer recognize you, [>]

      My Father Attributed Immortality to Waiters, [>]

      My father loved the strange books . . . , [>]

      My grandmother prophesied the end, [>]

      My guardian angel is afraid . . . , [>]

      My insignificance is a sign of my greatness, [>]

      My mother was a braid of black smoke, [>]

      My mother works here, [>]

      My neighbor was telling me, [>]

      My Noiseless Entourage, [>]

      My Quarrel with the Infinite, [>]

      My Secret Identity Is, [>]

      My shadow and your shadow on the wall, [>]

      My Shoes, [>]

      Mystic Life, [>]

      Mystics, [>]

      My Turn to Confess, [>]

      My Weariness of Epic Proportions, [>]

      My Wife Lifts a Finger to Her Lips, [>]

      Nancy Jane, [>]

      Never-yet-equaled, wide-screen blockbuster, [>]

      Night Clerk in a Roach Hotel, [>]

      Night fell without asking, [>]

      Night is coming, [>]

      Nineteen Thirty-eight, [>]

      Nobody reads it but the insomniacs, [>]

      No sooner had I left A, [>]

      Note, [>]

      Note, [>]

      Note Slipped Under a Door, [>]

      Nothing Else, [>]

      Obscurely Occupied, [>]

      October Arriving, [>]

      October Light, [>]

      O exegetes, somber hermeneuts, [>]

      Of the light in my room:, [>]

      Old Man, [>]

      Old men have bad dreams, [>]

      On a gray evening, [>]

      Once I knew, then I forgot . . . , [>]

      One-Man Circus, [>]

      One night, as I was dropping off to sleep, [>]

      One night I went to keep the clock company, [>]

      One night you and I were walking, [>]

      One saw signs of it in certain families, [>]

      Only brooms, [>]

      Only you understood, [>]

      On the counter among many, [>]

      On the Farm, [>]

      On the first page of my dreambook, [>]

      On the Meadow, [>]

      Our sainted great-great-, [>]

      Out of poverty, [>]

      Outside a Dirtroad Trailer, [>]

      Outside Biaggi’s Funeral Home, [>]

      O witches! O poverty! . . . , [>]

      Paper Dolls Cut Out of a Newspaper, [>]

      Paradise, [>]

      Paradise Motel, [>]

      Pascal’s Idea, [>]

      Past-Lives Therapy, [>]

      Pastoral Harpsichord, [>]

      Peaceful Trees, [>]

      People Eating Lunch, [>]

      Pigeons at Dawn, [>]

      Poem Without a Title, [>]

      Poet of the dead leaves driven like ghosts, [>]

      Popular Mechanics, [>]

      Postcard from S., [>]

      Preachers Warn, [>]

      Prison Guards Silhouetted Against the Sky, [>]

      Prodigy, [>]

      Progress Report, [>]

      Prophesy, [>]

      Psalm, [>]

      Punch Minus Judy, [>]

      Puppet Maker, [>]

      Reading History, [>]

      Relaxing in a Madhouse, [>]

      Rocky was a regular guy, a loyal friend, [>]

      Romantic Landscape, [>]

      Romantic Sonnet, [>]

      Sausage makers of History, [>]

      Savageries to come, [>]

      School for Visionaries, [>]

      Secret History, [>]

      Seems like a long time, [>]

      Self-Portrait in Bed, [>]

      Separate Truths, [>]

      Serving Time, [>]

      Shaving, [>]

      Shelley, [>]

      She’s pressing me gently . . . , [>]

      She was about to chop the head, [>]

      Shirt, [>]

      Shoes, secret face of my inner life:, [>]

      Sightseeing in the Capital, [>]

      Sky’s gravedigger, [>]

      Slaughterhouse Flies, [>]

      Snowy Morning Blues, [>]

      So far I’ve met here two Homers and one Virgil, [>]

      Softly, [>]

      So, hurry up!, [>]

      Solitude, [>]

      Solitude in Hotels, [>]

      So many crutches. Now even the daylight, [>]

      Someone shuffles by my door . . . , [>]

      Sometimes walking late at night, [>]

      so that’s what it’s like to be a wheel, [>]

      Spoon, [>]

      St. John of the Cross wore dark glasses, [>]

      Stone, [>]

      Strange Feast, [>]

      Strictly Bucolic, [>]

      St. Thomas Aquinas, [>]

      Stub of a Red Pencil, [>]

      Such skies came to worry men, [>]

      Summer Light, [>]

      Summer Morning, [>]

      Summer Storm, [>]

      Sunday Papers, [>]

      Sunlight, [>]

      Sunset’s Coloring Book, [>]

      Surely, he could make it easier, [>]

      Surely, he walks among us unrecognized:, [>]

      Swaying handcuffed, [>]

      Sweetest, [>]

      Take down its ears first, [>]

      Taken as a whole, it’s a mystery, [>]

      Talking to the Ceiling, [>]

      Talking to yourself on the front porch, [>]

      Talk Radio, [>]

      Tapestry, [>]

      Tattooed City, [>]

      Tending a cliff-hanging Grand Hotel, [>]

      That awful deceit of appearances, [>]

      That Little Something, [>]

      That same light by which I saw her last, [>]

      That’s the one the butcher, [>]

      That’s the only image, [>]

      That was the year the Nazis marched into Vienna, [>]

      The Absentee Landlord, [>]

      The Altar, [>]

      The Ballad of the Wheel, [>]

      The Bather, [>]

      The Betrothal, [>]

      The Big War, [>]

      The Bird, [>]

      The Black Queen raised high, [>]

      The blue trees are arguing with the red wind, [>]

      The brightly painted horse, [>]

      The butchery of the innocent, [>]

      The Chair, [>]

      The Chicken Without a Head, [>]

      The church is an iceberg, [>]

      The City, [>]

      The city had fallen. We came . . . , [>]

      The Clocks of the Dead, [>]

      The Cold, [>]

      The Common Insects of America, [>]

      The cows are to be slaughtered, [>]

      The Dead in Photographs, [>]

      The devil likes the chicken coop, [>]

      The Devils, [>]

      The ear threading, [>]

      The Emperor, [>]

      The Emperor must not be told night is coming, [>]

      The Empress, [>]

      The enormous engineering problems, [>]

      T
    he epoch of a streetcar drawn by horses, [>]

      The Eskimos were ravaging Peru, [>]

      The fat sisters, [>]

      The Fly, [>]

      The Foundlings, [>]

      The Friends of Heraclitus, [>]

      The Future, [>]

      The great labor was always to efface oneself, [>]

      The hundred-year-old china . . . , [>]

      The hundred-year-old servants, [>]

      The Immortal, [>]

      The Improbable, [>]

      The Inanimate Object, [>]

      The Initiate, [>]

      The Inner Man, [>]

      The Invisible, [>]

      The last customer will stagger out of the door, [>]

      The Lesson, [>]

      The Lights Are On Everywhere, [>]

      The likelihood of ever finding it is small, [>]

      The Little Pins of Memory, [>]

      The Little Tear Gland That Says, [>]

      The Lives of the Alchemists, [>]

      The Lovers, [>]

      The machines were gone, and so were those who worked them, [>]

      The madwoman went marking X’s, [>]

      The mail truck goes down the coast, [>]

      The Massacre of the Innocents, [>]

      The Melon, [>]

      The moths rustle the pages of evening papers, [>]

      Then there’s aesthetic paradox, [>]

      Then there was Johann, [>]

      The obvious is difficult, [>]

      The old farmer in overalls . . . , [>]

      The Old World, [>]

      The One to Worry About, [>]

      The one who lights the wood stove, [>]

      The pages of all the books are blank, [>]

      The Partial Explanation, [>]

      The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered, [>]

      The pink-cheeked Jesus, [>]

      The Place, [>]

      The plastic statue of the Virgin, [>]

      The poets of the Late Tang Dynasty, [>]

      The president smiles to himself; he loves war, [>]

      The Prisoner, [>]

      The Prodigal, [>]

      There are one or two murderers in any crowd, [>]

      There may be words left, [>]

      There now, where the first crumb, [>]

      There’s a book called, [>]

      There’s a thing in the world, [>]

      There was a child’s Sunday suit, [>]

      There was a melon fresh from the garden, [>]

      There were three of them, always three, [>]

      The room is empty, [>]

      The Scarecrow, [>]

      The season of lurid wildflowers, [>]

      The Secret, [>]

      These grand old buildings, [>]

      These rows of tall palm trees, [>]

      The snail gives off stillness, [>]

      The softness of this motel bed, [>]

      The Soul Has Many Brides, [>]

      The Starry Sky, [>


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