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The caged owl: new and selected poems
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From the Book
New poems --
Heart --
Here --
(Trauma) Storm --
Screaming out loud --
Tin cup --
Bolt from the blue --
What I'm saying --
The river --
Paradise --
Some part of the lyric --
Some notes on shadows --
The journey --
Fall --
Two poems about nothing --
Nothing and the incident in the streets --
A dream of fifty --
Shaky spectrum --
The talk --
The excavation --
If there's a God ... --
To my father, dying --
Celestial desolations --
Best --
Wild heart --
Paradise lightning dazzle --
Be-all --
from Burning the empty nests (1973) --
Washing my face --
Silence --
"Transients welcome" --
The girl with eighteen nightgowns --
The doll --
Getting dressed --
Manhattan Island poem --
A parable --
The dinner --
The bridge --
Love poem --
The room --
Making beasts --
Poem to the mother --
The fast --
Going out --
Lines written in dejection, Oklahoma --
Daffodil poem --
Sleeping alone in a small room --
October --
Trying to sleep --
Singing the pain back into the wound --
Poem --
Beginning --
from Gathering the bones together (1975) --
Gathering the bones together --
A life --
The cage --
The snail --
Two lines from the Brothers Grimm --
The hats --
Domestic life --
The king of the earthworms --
The sweater --
A large white rock called "The Sleeping Angel" --
All morning --
The builders --
Overtaken by fog while climbing --
Like any other man.
from The red house (1980) --
The lost children --
from The Red House --
Morning song --
The ditch --
Neighbors --
Work gloves --
The brave child --
Adolescence --
Horses --
Sunday school picnic: what endures --
Walking home after the first encounter --
The migrant camps --
Memorial Day --
After a death --
Driving home after a funeral --
Song of the invisible corpse in the field --
Spring floods --
In Haiti --
Song: early death of the mother --
The weeds --
A half-dead black cherry tree across the road from my childhood house --
Three songs --
There --
Beggar's song --
Swamp songs --
Indian summer --
After the guest --
Reading late in the cottage --
The caged owl --
Friday lunchbreak --
Virginia backyard: July --
On the lawn at Ira's --
A story Sassetta paints --
Leaving the asylum --
An abandoned, overgrown cemetery in the pasture near our house --
from We must make a kingdom of it (1986) and New & selected poems (1988) --
We must make a kingdom of it --
Poem in New York --
Visit to the Island of Lost Souls --
A shelf is a ledge --
Poem --
Nantucket morning/This world --
Chateaubriand on the Niagara frontier, 1791 --
Elegy --
Reverie --
The pond --
November --
The demonstration --
On a highway east of Selma, Alabama --
Solitary confinement --
Hotel St. Louis, New York City, fall 1969 --
The trick.
Available now: archaic torsos of both sexes --
Lucky --
After Botticelli's Birth of Venus --
The fifth month --
The voyages --
The hand: "Brightness falls from the air" --
Tableau vivant --
The teachers --
The western invention of lyrical nature --
A field in New England --
A song --
The tree --
from City of salt (1995) --
Origin of the Marble Forest --
A litany --
A moment --
Everything --
Elegy --
A dark night --
Who'd want to be a man? --
The vase --
A la mystérieuse --
The gray fox --
The cliff --
Self-portrait at twenty --
Muse of midnight --
Tristan and Iseult --
After Piero di Cosimo's Venus, Mars, and Amor --
Glukupikron --
Lament --
Investigation --
My father's voice --
The gift --
Father's song --
The city of salt --
from Orpheus & Eurydice (2001) --
The entrance to the Underworld --
When I first saw-- --
A snake-- --
His lament --
If-- --
When I was alive-- --
I was moving-- --
When Eurydice saw him --
The ghosts listen to Orpheus sing --
My body was never marred --
When they said-- --
In the cave mouth-- --
Once the two of us --
In the shadows-- --
His grief --
Far below, plowed fields-- --
The wedge --
His dream: the black tree/thirst --
Fields took on--
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