Collected poems /

Acknowledgements
Waiting p. 1
Not Under Holly or Green Boughs p. 1
Sing p. 2
Bitter Moon Dances p. 3
Anniversary p. 4
The Blood Thinks, and Pauses p. 4
You Were Wearing Blue p. 5
Wedding Day p. 6
The Others p. 7
September Morning p. 8
My Face is My Own, I Thought p. 8
Morning p. 9
But I Don' Love p. 9
Notebook p. 10
She Said Bread, Fred p. 12
The Third Retainer p. 13
News p. 14
Three p. 14
I Mean p. 14
November 1964 p. 15
There Are Lime-trees in Leaf on the Promenade p. 16
I Die of Thirst beside the Fountain p. 18
Recognition p. 19
Down There on a Visit p. 19
The Dublin Zurich Express p. 20
Sliding Two Mirrors p. 20
For Paul Dorn p. 21
Six Days p. 22
The Wall p. 26
A Pressed Flower p. 27
Who is Hannibal's Descendant, Leading his Elephants against the Tanks? p. 27
The Blown Agent p. 28
Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango p. 28
Hot Day at the Races p. 29
North Africa Breakdown p. 29
You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life p. 30
Southland p. 31
Now the Pink Stripes p. 31
Don't Follow My Toes p. 32
Wham! - The Race Begins p. 32
Collapsible p. 32
Got Me p. 33
Shoes p. 33
The Lonely Life of the Lighthouse Keeper p. 34
Inner Space p. 34
Love Poem p. 34
Sky p. 36
Continuation p. 36
These Are Not Catastrophes I Went Out of my Way to Look for p. 37
What Is the Question p. 37
Going Away Poem for Lee Harwood p. 38
Gitanes p. 38
Georgia on my Mind p. 39
Tom Tom p. 39
Introduction p. 40
Oratorio p. 40
Variations p. 40
Adagio p. 41
Saraband p. 41
Nocturne p. 41
El Barco del Abismo p. 42
The Sure Grip of a Cats Paw p. 43
The Explosive Harpoon p. 43
Gibil - Burn the Wizard and the Witch! p. 44
Kew: The Museum or Library of Plants p. 44
Joseph Saves his Brothers for Ever p. 45
The University of Essex p. 46
Extract from the Mexican Government Book of Home Cooking p. 48
The Silken Cord December 4 p. 48
The Needle p. 49
The Worst Poem p. 49
Going to the Zoo p. 50
The Phone Keeps Ringing p. 50
Reverse in through Driving p. 50
The Window Display p. 51
There are Forty-seven Pictures of her Walking out of Central High p. 51
How Can You Throw It All Away on this Ragtime? p. 51
Lion Lion p. 52
Lemures p. 52
Travelling p. 52
First Man? On Mars p. 53
Jungle Book p. 54
The Plaza and the Flaming Orange Trees p. 54
Dear Sir, Flying Saucers! Flying Saucers! Flying Saucers! p. 54
Strike, General p. 55
Unease p. 55
Provence I p. 56
Provence II p. 56
Provence III p. 57
Provence IV p. 57
The Lemon Tree p. 57
King of the Snow p. 58
Metaphysics of Magicians p. 59
South America p. 59
The 'Speed' Novel p. 60
Floral Luncheons and Service Dinners p. 60
Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White! p. 61
Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder p. 61
You Can Stroke People with Words p. 62
On the Third Floor and a Half p. 62
Chancer p. 63
Venceremos p. 63
My Son the Haiku Writer p. 63
The Moon Upoon the Waters p. 65
Reverse Map p. 66
Who Would True Valour See p. 67
He Called it Greenland to Encourage Settlement p. 67
Live from Athens, He Explains p. 67
The Corpse in my Head p. 68
Helpston [actual symbol not reproducible]9,850 Stone Built Residence p. 68
The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays p. 69
Purely Personal p. 69
Notes of the Song/Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long p. 69
Entry p. 70
Train de Nuit p. 70
Railway Express p. 71
Blue Pig p. 71
Four Late Night Poems p. 71
Shooting Sticks p. 72
The Title: Hear It p. 72
Good Morning p. 73
Your Number is Up p. 73
The White Lady p. 73
Lie Still Lie Still p. 74
You Can't Get Out p. 74
Stag Skull Mounted p. 75
The Corner p. 80
Greetings from Your Little Comrade p. 81
Moonshine p. 81
List p. 82
Writers/Riders/Rioters p. 82
Reference p. 82
And His Share of the Loot, if I Know Shorty Fleming p. 83
Logbook p. 83
Nine Poems p. 89
Energy Gap p. 92
A Fall in French Furniture p. 92
Toxophily p. 92
Surgical Names: John p. 93
One Two Three p. 93
Surgical Names: Joe p. 94
We Must Get to the p. 94
Star Rats p. 95
Surgical Names: Frank p. 95
Can You Hear Me, Mother? p. 96
Flat One p. 96
Flat Two p. 96
Surgical Names: Ted p. 97
Taxonomy p. 97
T.V. p. 97
Sailor Song p. 97
Surgical Names: Tom p. 98
No + On = Noon (except when reflected) p. 98
This Morning p. 99
The Title p. 99
Songs of the Depression p. 100
Just Another Whistle Stop p. 101
Out of my Mine p. 101
Gaslight p. 101
Records p. 102
7/8 of the Real p. 103
T.V. Again p. 103
Homily p. 104
Love and Pieces p. 104
Wandering p. 105
Misnomer p. 106
Situations p. 106
Poetry Now p. 106
Dead End p. 107
Old Poem's p. 107
? p. 108
Bounce p. 108
Three p. 109
Two Together p. 110
Patch Patch Patch p. 110
Future Models May Have Infra-red Sensors p. 111
Delivery Instruction p. 112
Western World p. 113
Transports of Delight p. 114
(Untitled) p. 114
End Again p. 115
Deal Another Hand p. 115
Mirror Mirror on the Wheel p. 117
Boing p. 117
I Better Put a Pattern around This if They're Going to Call it a Poem p. 118
Could You Love a Fish? or Would You Rather Swing on a Star? p. 118
Wandergut p. 119
Sally to See You, Tacitus p. 119
At Maximum Zero p. 120
A Colt Has Ate Most p. 120
Starlight Utilities p. 121
Start and Sit p. 121
A Colt Is Most p. 122
Utility Starlight p. 122
Celtic Mists p. 123
What Do You Say? p. 123
A Most Cold p. 124
Solitary Utahsitis p. 124
Who Dun It p. 125
What Nougat p. 125
Shall the Cup You Sit at p. 126
What You Got? p. 126
Take a Dog p. 127
How Cold is Most p. 127
Sacred Heart p. 128
Belt p. 128
Que Bonitos Ochos Tienes! p. 128
Get It While You Can p. 129
Theye p. 129
Chicago p. 130
Mama p. 130
Peoples p. 130
Self p. 130
Fits p. 131
Box in the Trunk p. 131
Gravity is Caused by Spring p. 131
Back when the Music said 'No Hurry' p. 131
The Generous Television p. 132
Five p. 132
Steaming Snow p. 132
Every One Different p. 132
In which Rhythm Makes a Stand p. 133
Windmill Poem Association p. 133
Bleecker Street p. 133
Om p. 134
The Century Doesn't Want to be 72 p. 134
Motiveless p. 134
Poemian p. 135
Edgar Allan Poe p. 135
The Pressure that Causes Mistakes p. 135
What Is the Shadow's Pentip Writing? p. 135
From the Window p. 136
University Days p. 136
Canvas p. 136
Wouldn't it be Funny if She Just Walked in p. 137
You Need It - We Rent It p. 137
Be Last p. 137
Murder Stone p. 137
Tell Me What This is About p. 138
Home for the Time p. 138
Attitude Must be Interesting p. 138
Read Me p. 138
Uncertain Steps p. 138
News p. 139
From Time to Time in the Past p. 139
Mixed p. 140
One Evening p. 140
Onset p. 141
Everything 'Under' the Sun p. 141
Som p. 142
Birthday p. 142
No Peace/Black Holes/Earth Cracks p. 142
Music Box p. 142
Laid Waste by the Luftwaffe p. 143
Lined Paper p. 143
Just We Two p. 143
Philosophical Moments p. 144
Lunch is Ready p. 144
The Ethical Artist p. 145
Along Came Bill by P. G. Wodehouse p. 145
Infinite Variety Stales p. 145
Sunday Draught p. 146
Describing the In on the Crest of a Wave p. 146
New Year p. 148
Northwest Ohio p. 148
The Only Sound in Dallas was the Mexican Beans Jumping p. 148
Los Angeles p. 149
Mexico p. 149
The City p. 149
On my Holidays p. 149
Pessimist p. 150
The Resistance Changes p. 150
Just Because my Teeth are Pearly p. 150
Tribal God p. 150
Not a Step Do I Stir until that Cat's Back to its Colour p. 151
Out Takes p. 151
Information Film p. 154
Knowledge p. 154
A Blue Vacuum Cleaner p. 155
Cross Divide p. 156
A More Refined Taste p. 156
The Beckoning Harpoon p. 157
Dormitory Life p. 157
The Conscience of a Conservative p. 158
Ulysses: or Trotsky's Death p. 164
The Drama Review p. 165
The Bank of Wood County p. 167
Funeral Cards p. 169
Beautiful Habit p. 172
Perpetual Motion p. 178
Mr. & Mrs. Grief p. 182
Horse Power p. 185
For Tom Clark p. 191
Formal 1 p. 195
Formal 2 p. 196
Formal 3 p. 197
Formal 4 p. 197
Formal 5 p. 198
Formal 6 p. 199
Formal 7 p. 199
Coda: Songs of the Mask p. 200
Ace p. 201
Bolivia: Another End of Ace p. 226
Message Bottle p. 229
Piety p. 233
Skiey p. 233
Memories of Sadness p. 233
Late Fall p. 234
Clone Odour p. 234
Tentences p. 235
Sped on Alone p. 235
Eurode p. 235
That More Simple Natural Time Distortion p. 237
I am Specious, Herr Kommandant p. 241
See the World's Greatest Animal Trainers Risk their Lives p. 241
You've Been Watching Pittsburgh p. 241
A Silver Bullet Made from a Crucifix p. 242
Substances p. 242
Some Other Bliss p. 243
Gracious Living 'Tara' p. 243
Everything I Have is Yours p. 244
Magnetic Water p. 244
Lenin's Minutemen p. 245
Finance Available p. 246
Retrieval p. 247
Pratheoryctice p. 247
Pretense p. 248
Proust from the Bottom Up p. 252
Writing p. 252
Shadows p. 312
England p. 312
European Teeth p. 312
Just How Intelligent Is the Pilot Whale? p. 313
Reconstructed by Scan p. 313
Sonorized p. 313
Sky Tails Putschist p. 314
Nothing to the Power of Language p. 314
Mordant Fleas p. 315
Iron Broom p. 315
Sleepy Villa p. 316
Rome by Anonymous p. 317
Recorded History p. 318
Transfer Track p. 318
Sleep, Perch p. 319
No Comment p. 319
The Gravediggers' Knees p. 319
Damn the Neutrinos! p. 320
Indian Giver p. 320
Catacoustics p. 321
The West p. 348
No Idea at All p. 348
English Opium p. 349
Semaphore p. 349
In Bong of Bell p. 350
Level p. 350
In Memoriam L. Wittgenstein p. 351
August 1st 1982 p. 352
Electronic Atmospheres p. 352
Just like Old Times p. 352
Roman A Clay p. 353
"V" p. 353
Working in China p. 353
40 Winks Solid on Broadway p. 354
Adiabatic Albedo p. 354
West Wind p. 355
No Hard Feelings p. 375
The Serpent p. 375
No Light No Tunnel p. 376
Living under the Divine Right of Sheriffs p. 376
Quillets p. 376
Descriptive Verse p. 377
Like a Simile p. 377
Human Warmth p. 377
The Scent of Cars p. 378
Creaking p. 378
Remember when People were Tortured p. 378
Juice p. 379
Making Marks p. 383
Nothing p. 385
Sentenced He Gives a Shape p. 386
Eternal Sections p. 400
Out of the Picture p. 438
Rainbow p. 445
The Vein p. 446
Intellectual Compost p. 455
All Fours p. 456
Coal Grass Blood Night Emerald p. 458
Survival p. 459
Rainbow 2 p. 468
Blue Screen p. 469
Intellectual Compost 2 p. 480
Emptily p. 481
Defective Definitions p. 492
The Mosquito and the Moon p. 493
Name Unknown p. 498
Muted Hawks p. 502
Wit Wither p. 504
Errory p. 507
Dark Senses p. 509
Out of a Sudden p. 511
Intellectual Compost 3 p. 512
Firewall p. 513
Intellectual Compost 4 p. 520
Death to a Star p. 521
Sixty Words I've Never Used Before p. 524
Meadow p. 527
Unable to Create Carrier p. 539
Crowded with Otiose Passengers p. 540
Cat Van Cat p. 541
Differences in Common p. 542
No Hard Feelings p. 542
Rhodopsin Blues p. 543
Shewn p. 544
Pyrophoric p. 544
Ingot We Trust p. 545
No Music p. 545
Looking for Language p. 546
A Happening at the Hair p. 546
Warm Autumn Problem p. 547
Landscaping the Future p. 547
Follow the Food p. 548
Affirmative [actual symbol not reproducible] 2 x Negative p. 549
Feu d'Artefriso p. 549
Translation p. 550
Suffering from painful Trapped Mood p. 552
For John Gian p. 554
Drinking Electricity p. 557
Index of Titles p. 559
Index of First Lines p. 568