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One Flower
One Flower
One flower
on the cliffside
Nodding at the canyon
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
1
Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was anything other than a conception in my mind I
wouldnt have said 'Sky'-T…
How to Meditate
How to Meditate
-lights outfall,
hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
the gland inside of my brain discha…
Nebraska
Nebraska
April doesnt hurt here
Like it does in New England
The ground
Vast and brown
Surrounds dry towns
Located in the dust
Haiku (Birds singing...)
Haiku (Birds singing...)
Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn.
Haiku (The taste...)
Haiku (The taste...)
The taste
of rain
—Why kneel?
Bus East
Bus East
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend
5 years ago - other furies other losses
America's
trying to control t…
th Chorus Mexico City Blues
th Chorus Mexico City Blues
Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollars
He was Tight
Frog waits
Till poor fly
Flies by
And then they…
nd Chorus Mexico City Blues
nd Chorus Mexico City Blues
Man is not worried in the middle
Man in the Middle
Is not Worried
He knows his Karma
Is not buried
th Chorus
th Chorus
The wheel of the quivering meat
conception
Turns in the void expelling human beings,
Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,
Mice, lic…
th Chorus Mexico City Blues
th Chorus Mexico City Blues
The great hanging weak teat of India
on the map
The Fingernail of Malaya
The Wall of China
The Korea Ti-Pousse Th…
th Chorus
th Chorus
I keep falling in love
with my mother,
I dont want to hurt her
-Of all people to hurt.
Every time I see her
she's grown…
BkIV:XIV Drusus and Tiberius
BkIV:XIV Drusus and Tiberius
What care the Citizens and the Senators
shall take in immortalising your virtues,
granting you full honours, Augustus,
BkIV:XII Spring
BkIV:XII Spring
Now Spring’s companions, the Thracian northerlies,
that quieten the ocean, are swelling the canvas:
now fields are unfrozen, and rivers s…
BkIV:X Age
BkIV:X Age
O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,
when a white, unexpected plumage surmounts all your arrogance,
and the tresses that …
BkIV:VII Diffugere Nives
BkIV:VII Diffugere Nives
The snow has vanished, already the grass returns to the fields,
and the leaves to the branches:
earth alters its state, and the …
BkIV:IV Drusus and the Claudians
BkIV:IV Drusus and the Claudians
Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,
to whom Jove granted power over wandering
birds, once the divine kin…
BkIV:V To Augustus
BkIV:V To Augustus
Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender
of Romulus’ people, you’ve been away too long:
make that swift return you promised, to …
BkIV:II Augustus’s Return
BkIV:II Augustus’s Return
Iulus, whoever tries to rival Pindar,
flies on waxen wings, with Daedalean art,
and is doomed, like Icarus, to give a name
BkIII:XXX Aere Perennius
BkIII:XXX Aere Perennius
I’ve raised a monument, more durable than bronze,
one higher than the Pyramids’ royal towers,
that no devouring rain…
BkIII:XXV Bacchanalian Song
BkIII:XXV Bacchanalian Song
Where are you taking me, Bacchus,
now I’m full of you? To what caves or groves, driven,
swiftly, by new inspiration?
In…
BkIII:XXVII Europa
BkIII:XXVII Europa
Let the wicked be led by omens of screeching
from owls, by pregnant dogs, or a grey-she wolf,
hurrying down from Lanuvian meadows,
BkIII:XXII To Diana
BkIII:XXII To Diana
Virgin protectress of the mountain and the grove,
who, called on three times, hears young girls, labouring
through childbirth, and re…
BkIII:XXIV Destructive Wealth
BkIII:XXIV Destructive Wealth
Though you’re richer than the untouched
riches of Araby, than wealthy India,
and you fill the land, and inshore
water…