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Author's Note | |
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from Love Poems | |
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"2/? Saturday" | |
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Friday Midnight Exactly | |
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Cold Poem | |
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I Hope I'm Not Here Next Year | |
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from 165 Meeting House Lane | |
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Dear Dark Continent | |
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Incidentals in the Day World | |
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Your Dailiness | |
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But He Says I Misunderstood | |
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from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby | |
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from I | |
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"Alice ordered me to be made" | |
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The Virtue of Uncreatedness | |
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Endless Day | |
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30th Birthday | |
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January | |
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How Spring Comes | |
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Little Egypt | |
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Sonnet | |
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A California Girlhood | |
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Poem ("St. Mark's Place caught at night in hot summer,") | |
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When I Was Alive | |
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After Tsang Chih | |
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Today | |
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You | |
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The Goddess Who Created This Passing World | |
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Untitled | |
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"If she says that she's the goddess Fortune" | |
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The World, All That Live & All That Occur | |
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Bus Stop | |
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Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice | |
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The Locket | |
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September's Book | |
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A True Account of Talking to Judy Holiday, October 13 | |
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Poem ("You hear that heroic big land music?") | |
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The Prophet | |
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Desert for All of Music to Take Place | |
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Untitled ("Clouds, big ones oh it's") | |
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Flowers of the Foothills & Mountain Valleys | |
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World's Bliss | |
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Waltzing Matilda | |
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Untitled ("All my life,") | |
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Postcards | |
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White Evening Primrose | |
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Memorial Day | |
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Margaret and Dusty | |
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La Mort | |
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Congratulating Wedge | |
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The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books | |
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So Much | |
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Poem ("Why do I want to tell it") | |
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Love | |
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It Would | |
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Weekend Weather | |
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At Night the States | |
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from Parts of a Wedding | |
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"Corpus Sagrada" | |
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"in this Paradise" | |
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I the People | |
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"in the dark I" | |
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"More important than having been born is your city" | |
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from Beginning with a Stain | |
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"Beginning with a stain, as the Universe did perhaps" | |
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"I will never not make a sound not have made a sound" | |
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"Some people refuse to remember, & I" | |
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"Against all agony a bunch of flowers in the chest" | |
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"born in beauty born a loved one, before history" | |
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"They say something ruinous & tragic happened soon after" | |
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"Speaking firstly forever" | |
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"You haven't saved me any time" | |
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'What does she think?' | |
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Homer's Art | |
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Mother Mask | |
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White Phosphorus | |
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from The Descent of Alette - [from Book One] | |
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"One day, I awoke" "& found myself on" | |
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"There was a woman" "in a station" | |
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"We couldn't find" "our fathers--" | |
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"A mother" "& child" | |
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"When I was born," "I was born now" | |
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"I once" "found an exit" | |
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"A car" "awash with blood" | |
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"I stood again" "on the platform" | |
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[from Book Three] | |
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"'It's time to go,' he said" "'Go where?'" | |
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"As I stared down" "into the black lake" | |
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"The horizontal" "black void" | |
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"Talons tore me," "tore my flesh" | |
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"When I awoke I" "was in darkness" | |
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"'We will be silent" "& wait'" | |
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"I looked into the light" "directly" | |
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from Close to Me & Closer . . . (The Language of Heaven) | |
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"I have to . . . talk to you. I have to tell you . . ." | |
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"I sit mute Nothing mutely" | |
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"They gave me, it seemed to me, an Initiation" | |
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"Why do we make" | |
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"When I say to you--I, almost, transfer a shape" | |
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"In eternity There is no story" | |
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"I'm . . . interested in, what of me there is . . . here." | |
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"I'm going to tell you . . . a story." | |
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"I don't have to" | |
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from Desamere - [from Amere and Desnos] | |
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'I dream,' says dead desert Desnos" | |
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"'See this piece of amber?' Amere says to Brother" | |
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"Desnos says, 'I dream I don't die" | |
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[from Desert Poems] | |
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from Mysteries of Small Houses | |
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Would Want to Be in My Wildlife | |
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One of the Longest Times | |
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As Good as Anything | |
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Choosing Styles--1972 | |
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I Must Have Called and So He Comes | |
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The Trouble with You Girls | |
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Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) | |
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Mid-80's | |
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Sept 17/Aug 29, '88 | |
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1992 | |
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Lady Poverty | |
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from Disobedience | |
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Circorpse | |
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Help Me Corpus Sagrada | |
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The Islanders Remember That There Are no Women and no Men | |
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Red Fish | |
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Enuma Elish | |
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from Reason and Other Women | |
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Amid These Words I Can Know | |
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Parable of Christian | |
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Moses and the Burning Bush | |
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Jone Jonah | |
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Leaves | |
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Grave of Light | |
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Where Leftover Misery Goes | |
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from Benediction | |
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City | |
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Love | |
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Iphigenia | |
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from Alma, or The Dead Women | |
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Radical Feminist | |
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Beloved Earth Restrain Them | |
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Discredited | |
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Oath | |
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And Who Is Crying | |
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Cherokee | |
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Decomposition | |
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Ballad | |
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from In the Pines | |
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from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls | |
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"There was power in that room. I saw" | |
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"The ghoul-girl. There was one to care for" | |
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"What she reports against you isn't" | |
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"The city I founded I will found again" | |
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"What were you doing when I thought you were dead" | |
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"If you meet me here I was Lady" | |
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"Walking away turns to look over shoulder" | |
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"Black sequins compression" | |
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"I stand here in whose eyes" | |
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"Woman with antlers, deer-headed antlered woman" | |
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"If there's change you put it into this sculpture's slot" | |
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"Justice may appear in the" | |
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"No world is intact" | |
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List of Poems by Titles of First Publication | |
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Index of Titles and First Lines | |