Poems
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- At the Carnival
- Dunbar
- Translation
- The Wife-Woman
- An Egg Island Equinox
- Idling
- New Born
- A Poem Called Day
- At The Zoo
- Didn't You Ever Search For Another Star?
- Walkative, Talkative
- Don't Ask/1980
- In the Morning
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Nighttrains
- The Oppressionists
- There It Is
- These New York City Pigeons
- Under the Edge of February
- A Small Story
- Nothing Is Far
- And Now She Has Disappeared in Water
- Propositions
- 'My own heart let me more have pity on'
- Limitations
- Cancer, or, The Crab
- Capricornus, or, The Goat
- Scorpio, or, The Scorpion
- Staggerlee wonders
- Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
- Sonnet 134: So now I have confessed that he is thine
- To Catch a Fish
- Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy
- Ballad of the Moon Moon
- Charaxos and Larichos
- Crate
- Crow’s-eye view: Poem number eleven
- The Legs of the Sky
- Of the Dark Doves
- Rain
- Snails
- Two Evening Moons
- the usual rilke
- A Walk in the River
- Forbidden City
- Instance of Me
- Inventory
- Unveiling
- The Dentist and the Crocodile
- Eternity
- Haiku
- Inventory—To 100th Street
- Orfeo
- Plena
- Questions and Answers
- Summer (a love poem)
- This Is a Poem About My Life
- Diminished Galleries
- Potential Random XIV
- Six Further Studies
- My Nodebook for December
- The Untold Witch
- Loneliness
- The Thing Written
- Winter Flowers
- City
- February 30th
- Me
- Remembering Elaine's
- Widening Income Inequality
- Heard Said
- Hidden
- Wisdom
- The Girl on the Bullard Overpass
- The giver (for Berdis)
- Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne)
- Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)
- Untitled
- The Colossus
- Day Bump
- Late-ish
- Mean Particles
- People Behaving Badly a Concern
- Going Deaf
- blessing the boats
- Traveler, your footprints
- My Radiant Eye
- Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die
- An Age of Miracles
- Occult
- The Suicide
- Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money
- Ars Poetica
- Autobiography in the Year 1952
- Birth Day
- A Child is Something Else Again
- In the Middle of This Century
- It's Been a While Since They Asked
- Jews in the Land of Israel
- Like Our Bodies' Imprint
- Of Molluscs
- A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention
- The Work of Happiness
- Ambition
- And When My Sorrow was Born
- The Astronomer
- The Blessed City
- Crucified
- Defeat
- The Eye
- Faces
- The Fox
- God
- The Good God and the Evil God
- The Grave-Digger
- The Great Longing
- The Greater Sea
- My Friend
- The New Pleasure
- Night and the Madman
- On Giving and Taking
- On the Steps of the Temple
- The Other Language
- “The Perfect World”
- The Pomegranate
- Said a Blade of Grass
- The Scarecrow
- The Seven Selves
- The Sleep-Walkers
- The Three Ants
- The Two Cages
- The Two Hermits
- The Two Learned Men
- War
- When My Sorrow Was Born
- The Wise Dog
- The Wise King
- Kalymnos: November 29, 1968
- From the Island, 1860
- Alcaic
- Balakirev's Dream (1905)
- From the Snowmelt of '66
- Sorrow Gondola No. 2
- The Stones
- Streets in Shanghai
- Prothalamium
- Strange!
- Jack
- Signing on a Crew
- Football Weather
- My Mouth Quick with Many Bees
- Ode to an All-American Boyhood
- Valentine
- Cedar Waxwings Unmasked
- Cookie
- Oh, Fly
- The Regal Eagle
- Bright Blue Self-Portrait
- Byron
- Epicedium to Potter’s Field
- Felonies and Arias of the Heart
- Heckyll & Jeckyll
- Incidents of Travel in Poetry
- Juarez
- Self and Dream Self
- Berryman
- Poem
- Alone
- The Lady
- Ocean of Earth
- The Seasons
- The Stray
- Unfinished Business
- Songs for the People
- To One Coming North
- An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire
- The Third Sermon on The Warpland
- To My Honor'd Kinsman, John Driden
- Wind, Water, Stone
- A Shropshire Lad 52: Far in a western brookland
- A Ritual to Read to Each Other
- Threadsuns
- Ashglory
- Black
- Line the Wordcaves
- Todtnauberg
- Vinegrowers
- Where am I
- Why This Sudden At-Homeness
- Oakland Blues
- Always Something More Beautiful
- Beatitudes Visuales Mexicanas
- Poem in the American Manner
- Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop’s “Five Flights Up”
- The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse
- Enemies
- Points of View
- Benediction
- At a Solemn Music