Classic and Contemporary Poets

JOHN CIARDI

Poems found: 863

11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED

11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED

4:00 A.M. ON THE TERRACE

A BOX COMES HOME

A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO

A CRATE OF STERLING SILVER LOVING CUPS

A MAN CAME TUESDAY

A MEMORY OF THE SAD CHAIR

A POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL

A SUCCESFUL SPECIES

A THANKS TO A BOTANIST

A THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS

A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS

ABOUT ESKIMOS (AND WHY THEY WEAR PANTS)

ABOUT MOOSE OR, TO HAIRY COWS, THE HAIRY BULL IS HANDSOMER THAN....

ABOUT RIVERS AND TOES

ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS

ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS

AFTER SUNDAY DINNER WE UNCLES SNOOZE

AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE

AFTERNOON IN THE PARK

ALL ABOUT BOYS AND GIRLS

ALPHABESTIARY: A

ALPHABESTIARY: B

ALPHABESTIARY: C

ALPHABESTIARY: G

ALPHABESTIARY: H

ALPHABESTIARY: I

ALPHABESTIARY: J

ALPHABESTIARY: M

ALPHABESTIARY: N

ALPHABESTIARY: O

ALPHABESTIARY: Q

ALPHABESTIARY: R

ALPHABESTIARY: T

AN ALPHABESTIARY: B

AN ALPHABESTIARY: G

AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW

AN APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE

AN ASPECT OF THE AIR

AN EMERITUS ADDRESSES THE SCHOOL

AN INSCRIPTION FOR RICHARD EBERHART

AN OLD MAN CONFESSES

AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED LAST

AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

AND OFF HE WENT JUST AS PROUD AS YOU PLEASE

APARTMENT WITH A VIEW

APOLOGY FOR A LOST CLASSICISM

APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE

APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE

APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE

ARE WE THROUGH TALKING, I HOPE?

AS I WOULD WISH YOU BIRDS

ASPECT OF THE AIR

AT FIRST FLOWER OF THE EASY DAY

AT LEAST WITH GOOD WHISKEY

AUDIT AT KEY WEST

AUDIT AT KEY WEST

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COMEDIAN

Â€ŒNOTHING IS REALLY HARD BUT TO BE REALÂ€”Â€?

BABOON AND THE STATE

BACK HOME IN POMPEII

BACK HOME IN POMPEII

BACK THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS TO THIS SIDE

BALLAD OF HOW ADAM SAW IT

BALLAD OF THE ICONDIC

BARMECIDE FEAST

BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968

BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968

BEDLAM REVISITED

BEES AND MORNING GLORIES

BEES AND MORNING GLORY

BEING CALLED; A BREAKFAST REVERIE IN KEY WEST

BENEFITS OF EDUCATION; BOSTON, 1931

BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME

BIRDS, LIKE THOUGHTS

BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906

BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906

BUMP! BANG! BUMP!

CALLING ALL COWBOYS

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY?

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS STRONG

CAPTAIN SPUD AND HIS FIRST MATE, SPADE

CARTOGRAPHER OF MEADOWS

CARVING THE TURKEY

CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD

CAUGHT AS WE ARE

CHANG MCTANG MCQUARTER CAT

CHAP WHO DISAPPEARED

CHELSEA NAVAL HOSPITAL

CHILDE HAROLD TO THE DARK TOWER CAME

CHRISTMAS ALONE IN KEY WEST

CHRISTMAS CAROL

CLOCK IN THE MIRROR

COLOSSUS IN QUICKSAND

COME TO THINK OF IT

COMPOSITION FOR A NATIVITY; ISTE PERFECIT OPUS

CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO

COUNTING ON FLOWERS

CRATE OF STERLING LOVING CUPS

DAMNATION OF DOVES

DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE

DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE

DAY OF THE PEONIES

DEAD PIGEON ON SOUTH STREET

DEATH OF A BOMBER

DEATH'S THE CLASSIC LOOK

DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP

DEATHS THEY ARE, THOSE GREAT EYES FROM THE AIR

DIALOGUE IN THE SHADE

DIALOGUE WITH OUTER SPACE

DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM

DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM

DOING A GOOD DEED

DOMESTIC SONNET

DONE FOR THE DOING

DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

DOWN NARROW STAIRS FROM A THIN EYE

DRIVING ACROSS THE AMERICAN DESERT AND THINKING OF THE SAHARA

EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET

EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET

EASTER BUNNY, SELS.

ELEGY 3. CAVALCANTE

ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES

ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES

ELEGY FOR A SEAMAN

ELEGY FOR A SWEET SHARPY

ELEGY FOR G.B. SHAW

ELEGY FOR G.B. SHAW

ELEGY FOR MORAL SELF-ASSURANCE AND COUNTRY VIRTUE

ELEGY FOR SANDRO

ELEGY FOR THE FACE AT YOUR ELBOW

ELEGY FOR THE FACE AT YOUR ELBOW

ELEGY JUST IN CASE

ELEGY JUST IN CASE

ELEGY: 1. AS I FIND MYSELF REMEMBERING

ELEGY: 1. AS I HEAR THE FAMILY THINKING

ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER

ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER

ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945

ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945

EMERITUS ADDRESSING THE SCHOOL

EPITHALAMIUM AT ST. MICHAEL'S CEMETERY

EVENING OF THE PRIVATE EYE

EVERYTIME YOU ARE SLEEPING AND I

EVERYWHERE THAT UNIVERSE

EVERYWHERE THAT UNIVERSE

EXEGESIS OF AN ALLEGORICAL TEXT

FABLE OF SURVIVAL

FAST AS YOU CAN COUNT TO TEN

FAST AS YOU CAN COUNT TO TEN

FIDDLE PRACTICE

FIGURE DRAWN IN WIRE; TO MARY AND JOHN AND DICK AND DICK

FINALLY THAT BLUE RECEDING SPHERE

FIRST SNOW ON AN AIRFIELD

FLOWERING QUINCE

FLOWERING QUINCE

FOR MILLER WILLIAMS

FOR MILLER WILLIAMS

FOR MY 25TH BIRTHDAY IN 1941

FOR MY NEPHEW GOING TO BED

FOR MY SON JOHN

FOR MY SON JOHN

FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM

FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM

FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN

FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN

FOR SOMEONE ON HIS TENTH BIRTHDAY

FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY POEM

FOUR THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT A GOAT

FRAGMENT OF A BAS RELIEF

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 2

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 3

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 4

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 5

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 6

FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES

FRESHMAN SONNET: SUCCESS

FROM ADAM'S DIARY

GALILEO AND THE LAWS

GARDEN NOTES FROM ZANZIBAR

GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE

GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE

GET UP OR YOU'LL BE LATE FOR SCHOOL, SILLY!

GIRLS GOING TO CHURCH

GOING LATE TO NEW BRUNSWICK

GOING TO THE DOGS

GOOD AND BAD HABITS (THEY ARE SOMETIMES MIXED.)

GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL

GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL

GRAY SPRING MORNING

GUIDE TO POETRY; FOR CID CORMAN, WHO NEEDS IT LEAST

GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE

GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE

HAIRY-NOSED PREPOSTEROUS

HEALTH OF CAPTAINS

HIGH TENSION LINES ACROSS A LANDSCAPE

HIGH TENSION WIRES ACROSS A LANDSCAPE

HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT

HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT

HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS

HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS

HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR

HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR

HOW TO TELL THE TOP OF A HILL

I PICKED A DREAM OUT OF MY HEAD

I PICKED A DREAM OUT OF MY HEAD

I REMEMBER THE HOUSE THAT WAS DOWN FROM PORTLAND ROAD

I WAS NOT SLEEPING NOR AWAKE

I WISH I COULD MEET THE MAN THAT KNOWS

I'M NO GOOD FOR YOU AND YOU

IF YOU SHOULD FALL, DON'T FORGET THIS

IMAGE OF MAN AS A GARDENER, AFTER TWO WORLD WARS

IMPROVISATION FOR A SOUTHERN NIGHT

IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE

IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE

IN PLACE OF A CURSE

IN SOME DOUBT BUT WILLINGLY

IN SPECIES, DARLING

IN THE AUDIENCE

IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD

IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD

IN THE YEAR OF MANY CONVERSIONS AND THE PRIVATE SOUL

INSCRIPTION FOR RICHARD EBERHART

INVASION OF SLEEP WALKERS (WHAT I SHALL SAY TO MY FATHER)

IS THIS SOMEONE YOU KNOW?

IT IS FOR THE WAKING MAN TO TELL HIS DREAMS

IT IS SPRING, DARLING

IT IS THE SAME PLACE ALWAYS ONCE AGAIN

IT IS TIME, YOU KNOW

IT TOOK FOUR FLOWERBOATS TO CONVEY MY FATHER'S BLACK

IT TOOK FOUR FLOWERBOATS TO CONVOY MY FATHER'S BLACK

JOE WITH A WOODEN LEG

JOSHUA ON EIGHTH AVENUE

KNOTHOLE IN SPENT TIME

KNOWING BITCHES

KNOWING BITCHES

LANDSCAPES OF MY NAME

LAUNCELOT IN HELL

LAUNCELOT IN HELL

LEAVING LONGBOAT KEY; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM SLOANE, III

LESSON FOR TONIGHT

LESSON IN MANNERS

LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER

LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER

LETTER FROM A DEATH BED

LETTER FROM A METAPHYSICAL COUNTRYSIDE; FRANKFORD, MISSOURI

LETTER FROM A PANDER

LETTER FROM A PANDER

LETTER FROM A RUBBER RAFT

LETTER FROM AN EMPTY HOUSE

LETTER FROM AN ISLAND

LETTER HOMEWARD

LETTER TO DANTE

LETTER TO MOTHER

LETTER TO MOTHER

LETTER TO VIRGINIA JOHNSON

LETTER TO VIRGINIA JOHNSON

LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD

LINES FOR MYRA TO GROW TO

LINES WHILE WALKING HOME FROM A PARTY ON CHARLES STREET

LOGICIAN'S NOCTURNE

LOUD PROUD SOMEONE

LOVE MAKES NO MUSIC

LOVE SONNET: BELIEVING PART OF ALMOST ALL I SAY

LOVING YOU IS SOMETHING TO DO

MAN AND A WOMAN MIGHT AT THIS MOMENT

MAN CAME TUESDAY

MAN WHO SANG THE SILLIES

MANOCALZATTA (GLOVED HAND)

MASSACHUSETTS BAY

MASSIVE RETALIATION; SAIPAN 1944-1945; AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN

MEMO:PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF A PRAYER TO GOD THE FATHER

MEMOIR OF A ONE-ARMED HARP TEACHER

MEMORY OF THE SAD CHAIR

MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED

MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED

METROPOLITAN ICE CO.

MIDDLE CLASS POEM

MISS OLIVIA BRANTON

MONDAY MORNING REVEILLE

MONDAY MORNING: LONDON

MORE ABOUT PREPOSTERI

MORNING IN THE PARK

MORNING: I KNOW PERFECTLY HOW IN A MINUTE YOU WILL STRETCH AND SMILE

MORNING: I KNOW PERFECTLY HOW IN A MINUTE YOU WILL STRETCH AND SMILE

MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE

MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE

MUMMY SLEPT LATE AND DADDY FIXED BREAKFAST

MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN

MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN

MY FATHER DIED IMPERFECT AS A MAN

MY FATHER'S WATCH

MY FATHER'S WATCH

MYSTIC RIVER; MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

NAPPING BY THE FENCE

NIGHT CELESTIAL

NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN

NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN

NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY

NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY

NINE GRAY GEESE

NO WHITE BIRD SINGS

NO WHITE BIRD SINGS

NOTHING IS REALLY HARD BIT TO BE REAL --'

O CHILD, DO NOT FEAR THE DARK AND SLEEP'S DARK POSSESSION

OCTOBER: A SNOW TOO SOON

ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION

ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION

ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF A CITIZEN

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS; FOR MY TEACHERS

OF FISH AND FISHERMEN

OF FISH AND FISHERMEN

OF HURRICANES, SUMMER DAYS, AND MISS MYRA

OLD MAN CONFESSES

ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER

ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER

ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD IN POLAND

ON BEING MUCH BETTER THAN MOST AND YET NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH

ON BEING SURE AND OF WHAT

ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL

ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL

ON LEARNING TO ADJUST TO THINGS

ON LOOKING EAST TO THE SEA WITH A SUNSET BEHIND ME

ON LOOKING EAST TO THE SEA WITH A SUNSET BEHIND ME

ON MEETING MISS B

ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION

ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION

ON SENDING HOME MY CIVILIAN CLOTHES

ON SENDING HOME MY CIVILIAN CLOTHES

ON SOMETHING LIKE THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY

ON THE ORTHODOXY AND CREED OF MY POWER MOWER

ON THE POET AS A DAMNED POOR THING

ONE BETTY – FIVE SKULLS

ONE DULL THING YOU DID WAS TO DIE, FLETCHER; FOR FLETCHER PRATT

ONE EASTER NOT ON THE CALENDAR I WOKE

ONE JAY AT A TIME

ONE JAY AT A TIME

ONE NIGHT ON LAKE CHAUTAUQUA

PALAVER'S NO PRAYER

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: FOR CLAVIA ON A REJECTION SLIP

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: FOR CLAVIA ON A REJECTION SLIP

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON EVOLUTION

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON EVOLUTION

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD

PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD

PHILOSOPHICAL POEM

PILOT IN THE JUNGLE

PLEASE DON'T TELL HIM

PLEASE TELL THIS SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE

PLEASE, JOHNNY!

POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL

POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL

POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL

POEM FOR MY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY

POEM FOR MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

POEM FOR MY THIRTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY

POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

POEM FROM A HIRED ROOM

POOR LITTLE FISH

PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION

PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION

PRAISE OF GOOD POETS IN A BAD AGE; TO THE MEMORY OF WALLACE STEVENS

PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN

QUIRKS: 1. BREAKFAST ON THE PATIO

QUIRKS: 1. BREAKFAST ON THE PATIO

QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED

QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED

READ THIS BEFORE YOU COME IN

READ THIS WITH GESTURES

REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS

REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS

REASON FOR THE PELICAN

RECORD CROWD AT BEACHES

REFLECTIONS WHILE OILING A MACHINE GUN

REVEILLE FOR MY TWENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY

REVERIE DURING BRIEFING

REVERIE DURING BRIEFING

RHETORIC FOR DANNY KEOUGH TO RECITE AT THE BAR

RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT

RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT

RIVER IS A PIECE OF SKY

ROMAN DIARY: 1951

ROMAN DIARY: 1951

S.P.Q.R. A LETTER FROM ROME

S.P.Q.R.Â€”A LETTER FROM ROME

SATURDAY – MARCH 6

SEA MARSHES IN WINTER

SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE

SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE

SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE

SIT UP WHEN YOU SIT DOWN!

SITTING BULL AT THE CIRCUS

SLEEP (BY ROUSSEAU)

SLEEPLESS BEAUTY

SOCIALIZING WITH A CREATURE

SOME FIGURES FOR WHO I AM

SOME FIGURES FOR WHO MUST SPEAK

SOME SORT OF GAME

SOMEONE ASKED ME

SOMEONE AT MY HOUSE SAID

SOMEONE COULD WIN A POLAR BEAR

SOMEONE HAD A HELPING HAND

SOMEONE LOST HIS HEAD AT BEDTIME BUT HE GOT IT BACK

SOMEONE MADE ME PROUD OF YOU

SOMEONE SHOWED ME THE RIGHT WAY TO RUN AWAY

SOMEONE WAS UP IN THAT TREE

SOMETHING / NOTHING ANY LOVE CAN TELL

SOMETIMES EVEN PARENTS WIN

SOMETIMES I FEEL THIS WAY

SOMETIMES RUNNING

SOMETIMES THE FOUNDERING FURY

SONG FOR AN ALLEGORICAL PLAY

SORROW OF OBEDIENCE

SOUND TRACK JUMPS

SPEED ADJUSTMENTS

SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE

SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE

SPRING SONG (1)

SPRING SONG (1)

SPRING SONG (2)

SPRING SONG (2)

STARRY HEAVENS, THE MORAL LAW

STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS

STONE WITHOUT EDGES HAS NOT BEEN MINED

STRANGER IN THE PUMPKIN SAID

SUBURBAN HOMECOMING

SUCCESFUL SPECIES

SURVIVAL IN MISSOURI

TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS

TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS

TALKING MYSELF TO SLEEP AT ONE MORE HILTON

TEN MINUTES MY CAPTIVE

TEN YEARS AGO WHEN I PLAYED AT BEING BRAVE

TERZONE: BODY TO SOUL

TERZONE: SOUL TO BODY

THANKS TO A BOTANIST

THAT SUMMER'S SHORE

THE BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME

THE CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MEADOWS

THE CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD

THE CLOCK IN THE MIRROR

THE DAY OF THE PEONIES

THE DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP

THE FOOLISH WING

THE HEALTH OF CAPTAINS

THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD

THE ONE DULL THING YOU DID WAS TO DIE, FLETCHER

THE PILOT IN THE JUNGLE

THE POET'S WORDS

THE REASON FOR THE PELICAN

THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE

THE STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS

THE STRANGER IN THE PUMPKIN

THINKING ABOUT GIRLS

THIS MOVING MEANINGLESSNESS

THOUGHT ABOUT SHEIK BEDREDDEN

THOUGHTS ON LOOKING INTO A THICKET

THOUGHTS ON LOOKING INTO A THICKET

THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS

THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE

THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE

THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 1

THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 2

THREE SONGS FOR CADAVER: 3

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3

THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3

THURSDAY ALSO HAPPENS

THURSDAY ALSO HAPPENS

TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY

TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY

TIME LEAVES NO TIME WHEN YOU'RE A BOY

TO A LOVELY LADY GONE TO THEORY

TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK

TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK

TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA

TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA

TO BE DELIVERED ON ARRIVAL

TO DUDLEY FITTS; SOME MORTAL LINES WHILE LYING IN BED WITH SACROLILIAC

TO JUDITH ASLEEP

TO JUDITH ASLEEP

TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR

TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR

TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS

TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS

TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT

TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT

TO W.T. SCOTT; WITH THANKS FOR A POEM

TRAFFIC VICTIM SENDS A SONNET OF CONFUSED THANKS TO GOD

TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS

TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING

TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING

TWENTY-THREE SKIDOO

TWICE, AWAY FROM JACK, I THOUGHT OF HIM

TWO DRY POEMS: DROUGHT

TWO DRY POEMS: PRAYING FOR RAIN IN A CRACKED FIELD

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 1. THE ABSTRACT CALORIE

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 1. THE ABSTRACT CALORIE

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 2. THE TITLE OF THE LAST POEM WAS WRONG AGAIN

TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 2. THE TITLE OF THE LAST POEM WAS WRONG AGAIN

TWO HOURS: 1. EVENING

TWO POEMS FOR BENN: 1. ROMPING

TWO POEMS FOR BENN: 2. STOPPED SUDDENLY THAT HE IS BEAUTIFUL

TWO SONGS FOR A GUNNER: 1. FIRING TRACERS

TWO SONGS FOR A GUNNER: 2. BEING FIRED AT

USELESS KNOWLEDGE

VAGARY OF THE SIMPLE HEART

VALE (TO IRWIN SWERDLOW)

VERBAL GENERATION

VISIBILITY ZERO

VISIBILITY ZERO

VISIT FOR AUNT FRANCESCA

WARD THREE: FAITH

WARD THREE: FAITH

WARNING ABOUT THE PREPOSTEROUS

WASHING YOU FEET

WATCHING A KETTLE BOIL

WHAT DID YOU LEARN AT THE ZOO

WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME

WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME

WHAT SOMEONE SAID WHEN HE WAS SPANKED ON THE DAY BEFORE HIS BIRTHDAY

WHAT SOMEONE TOLD ME ABOUT BOBBY LINK

WHAT WAS HER NAME?

WHAT WORLD IT IS THE CROCODILE MAY KNOW

WHATCHAMACALLIT

WHEN A MAN DIES

WHEN I AM NOT DEAD

WHILE I WAS SHAVING

WHY DON'T YOU WRITE FOR ME?

WHY I HAVE TO WAIT ALL DAY TO KISS BENN

WHY NOBODY PETS THE LION AT THE ZOO

WIDGEONRY (AND WHY SHOULDN'T YOU USE YOUR DICTIONARY?)

WORD ABOUT THE TRUE-PREPOSTEROUS

YET NOT TO LISTEN TO THAT SUNG NOTHING

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