Contemporary Poets
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1. When I Saw That Clumsy Crow / Flap From A Wasted Tree - / A Shape In The Mind Rose Up: / Over The Gulfs Of Dream / Flew A Tremendous Bird / Further And Further Away / Into A Moonless Black - / Deep In The Brain - Far Back.

2. I Dreamt Last Night You / Lived Nearby - Not / Dead At All - But Safe / In A Blacksmith's Storage Room - / With Bolts And Nails In Bins / From Floor To Ceiling.

3. Shall I Say How It Is In Your Clothes? / A Month After Your Death I Wear Your Blue Jacket. / The Dog At The Center Of My Life Recognizes / You've Come To Visit - He's Ecstatic. / In The Left Pocket - A Hole. / In The Right - A Parking Ticket Delivered Up Last August On Bay State Road. / In My Heart - A Scatter Like Milkweed

4. This Is The Field Where The Battle Did Not Happen - / Where The Unknown Soldier Did Not Die. / This Is The Field Where Grass Joined Hands - / Where No Monument Stands - / And The Only Heroic Thing Is The Sky.

5. The Wind Left. / And I Wept. / And I Said To Myself: / "What Have You Done With The Garden That Was Entrusted To You?"

6. I Thought Hard For Us All-My Only Swerving- - / Then Pushed Her Over The Edge Into The River.

7. Where Are We Going - Walt Whitman? The Doors Close In An Hour. Which Way Does Your Beard Point Tonight?

8. I Woke And Cried To My Wife: / "He Didn't Die / That Way! There Was No Rope! / All That Is Wrong! ? "She / Said - "In / Your Dream He Did."

9. Young Tree - Unburdened / By Anything But Your Beautiful Natural Blossoms / And Dew - The Dark / Blood In My Body Drags Me / Down With My Brother.

10. I Have Heard Tell / That In A Museum In Atlanta / Way Back In A Corner Somewhere / There's This Thing That's Only Half / Sheep Like A Woolly Baby / Pickled In Alcohol Because / Those Things Can't Live.

11. Let Them Say / That She Had Going For Her / A Good Ass And Six Children. / That She Obeyed Her Daddy / And Her Husband / And Looked Just Like Her Mama / More And More.

12. Near This Rose - In This Grove Of Sun-Parched - Wind-Warped Madronas - / Among The Half-Dead Trees - I Came Upon The True Ease Of Myself - / As If Another Man Appeared Out Of The Depths Of My Being - / And I Stood Outside Myself - / Beyond Becoming And Perishing - / A Something Wholly Other - / As If I Swayed Out On The Wildest Wave Alive - / And Yet Was Still.

13. When I Was A Child / I Had A Graveyard/ Where I Buried Insects / And Dead Birds Under / A Rose Tree. / I Would Bury The Insects / In Tin Foil And Match Boxes. / I Would Bury The Birds / In Pieces Of Red Cloth. / It Was All Very Sad / And I Would Cry / As I Scooped The Dirt / Into Their Small Graves With A Spoon.

14. I Caught A Tremendous Fish / And Held Him Beside The Boat / Half Out Of Water - With My Hook / Fast In A Corner Of His Mouth. He Didn't Fight. / He Hadn't Fought At All. / He Hung A Grunting Weight - / Battered And Venerable / And Homely.

15. For Something Is Amiss Or Out Of Place / When Mice With Wings Can Wear A Human Face.

16. (I Touch Your Book And Dream Of Our Odyssey In The Supermarket And Feel Absurd.)

17. With Love's Alertness / We Recognize / The Soundless Whimper / Of The Soul / Behind The Eyes / A Shaft Opens / And The Timid Thing / At Last Leaps To Surface / With Full-Spread Wing.

18. Snail - Snail - Glister My Forward - / Bird - Soft-Sigh Me Home - / Worm - Be With Me. / This Is My Hard Time.

19. Listen - / You A Wonder. / You A City / Of A Woman. / You Got Geography / Of Your Own.

20. You Uterus / You Have Been Patient / As A Sock

21. Suddenly I Realize / That If I Stepped Out Of My Body I Would Break / Into Blossom

22. The Eyes Open To A Cry Of Pulleys - / And Spirited From Sleep - The Astounded Soul / Hangs For A Moment Bodiless And Simple / As False Dawn. / Outside The Open Window / The Morning Air Is All Awash With Angels.

23. Huffy Henry Hid The Day - / Unappeasable Henry Sulked.

24. Body My House / My Horse / My Hound / What Will I Do / When You Are Fallen / Where Will I Sleep / How Will I Ride / What Will I Hunt / Where Can I Go / Without My Mount / All Eager And Quick / How Will I Know In Thicket Ahead / Is Danger Or Treasure / When Body My Good / Bright Dog Is Dead

25. Talk About Columbus - / I Tell You Who Discovered / America; / Martin Luther King / That's Who.

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