Poems
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- Taking Off from an Old WCW Poem
- High Flight
- From “The Hollow Hill”
- Moss-Gathering
- I Knew a Woman
- In a Dark Time
- My Papa’s Waltz
- The Waking
- Darwin’s Bestiary
- How Evolution Came to Indiana
- Three Haiku, Two Tanka
- To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
- Euphorias
- The Trickle-down Theory of Happiness
- Vasectomy
- The Voyage Home
- Accidents of Birth
- Consequences
- “Do Not Embrace Your Mind’s New Negro Friend”
- Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
- Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
- The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
- Navy Field
- Notes for an Elegy
- Politics
- Rhode Island
- Thoughts on One’s Head
- The Wreck of the Thresher
- The Illiterate
- Arrival at Santos
- The Armadillo
- Little Exercise
- Visits to St. Elizabeths
- At the Fishhouses
- Filling Station
- The Man-Moth
- One Art
- Dirty Face
- Openin’ Night
- When I Am Gone
- Time
- Children of the Working Class
- Cocaine
- A Poem for Painters
- A Poem for Record Players
- A Poem for the Old Man
- A poem for vipers
- The Suicide
- Supplication
- The Acts of Youth
- Night of Love
- Thou Art My Lute
- The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
- The Paradox
- Invitation to Love
- Sympathy
- The Debt
- The Haunted Oak
- The Lawyers' Ways
- Little Brown Baby
- A Negro Love Song
- The Old Front Gate
- Ships that Pass in the Night
- Signs of the Times
- Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
- We Wear the Mask
- When de Co'n Pone's Hot
- An Afternoon at the Beach
- Amor Vincit Omnia
- Autumn Shade
- Clear-seeing
- Clothes
- For Louis Pasteur
- The Mountain Cemetery
- The Poet Orders His Tomb
- The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten
- The Virgin Considered as a Picture
- Willie Winkie
- Exodus
- Five Poems about Poetry
- From a Photograph
- Leviathan
- Of Being Numerous: Sections 1-22
- Some San Francisco Poems: Sections 1-4
- Some San Francisco Poems: Sections 5-10
- Song, the Winds of Downhill
- ‘And Their Winter and Night in Disguise’
- from Discrete Series: "Town, a town ..."
- Image of the Engine
- Myth of the Blaze
- Psalm
- from Of Being Numerous
- Populist
- Return
- Time of the Missile
- Vulcan
- Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
- Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
- Boleros 14
- The Cradle Logic of Autumn
- Desire’s Persistence
- The End of an Ethnic Dream
- The Healing Improvisation of Hair
- Homecoming
- The Homecoming Singer
- Journey to the Place of Ghosts
- The Lake in Central Park
- Love in the Weather’s Bells
- Meta-A and the A of Absolutes
- Age Looking Back at Its Youth
- November, Late in the Day
- With the voice of the fieldmouse
- Threadsuns
- Ashglory
- Black
- Line the Wordcaves
- Todtnauberg
- Vinegrowers
- Where am I
- Why This Sudden At-Homeness
- Psalm
- from d e l e t e, Part 12
- from d e l e t e, Part 8
- Holding On
- A Reminiscence
- d e l e t e, Part 2
- d e l e t e, Part 6
- A Stone Knife
- Korean Mums
- Now and Then
- Freely Espousing
- A Man in Blue
- Address
- Destitute Peru
- Light Night
- Poem (The day gets slowly started)
- Sweet Romanian Tongue
- The Bluet
- Hymn to Life
- The Hunting of the Snark
- A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky
- Jabberwocky
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Like Brothers We Meet
- Lincoln Is Dead
- The Southern Refugee
- Weep
- Early Affection
- George Moses Horton, Myself
- On Liberty and Slavery
- On Summer
- from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 17
- from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 19
- from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 2
- from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: Song 5
- from The Countesse of Montgomery’s Urania: “Love peruse me, seeke, and finde”
- from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 4
- from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 7
- Good King Wenceslas
- from the Fifth Villancico
- from the First Villancico
- The Second Going
- Froggy Frenchman
- Inheritance
- How to Get There
- The Gatekeeper’s Children
- An Extraordinary Morning
- On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
- What Work Is
- Our Valley
- Baby Villon
- Belle Isle, 1949
- Blasting from Heaven
- Detroit, Tomorrow
- They Feed They Lion
- You Can Have It
- Call It Music
- My Brother the Artist, at Seven
- SMOKE
- Awaking in New York
- Caged Bird
- California Prodigal
- Kin
- The Mothering Blackness
- On the Pulse of Morning
- Phenomenal Woman
- A Plagued Journey
- Still I Rise
- The Peacock at Alderton
- From “Odi Barbare”
- An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
- Funeral Music
- In Memory of Jane Fraser
- In Piam Memoriam
- from Mercian Hymns
- Ovid in the Third Reich
- Picture of a Nativity
- Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
- Respublica
- September Song