Table of Contents
Preface xv
1 Introduction: The instant is the giant lamp we throw/our shadows Leslie Scakpino
From Hymns to St. Geryon, 1959
The Breech 27
Poem [Linked Part to Part] 28
Point Lobos: Animism 29
For the Death of 100 Whales 31
Poem [I Wanted To Turn To Electricity] 32
The Mystery of the Hunt 33
Peyote Poem 34
From A Fist Full, 1956-1957
The Air 47
Two Weeks Baby Sunbathing 48
For a Drawing by Jess 48
From Dark Brown, 1961
Oh Giddy Blank White Page 51
The Root the Ion the Pride to the Leaf 52
((Oh Bring Oh Blood Back the Courage 53
Oh Why Oh Why the Blasted Love 54
Oh Ease Oh Body-Strain Oh Love 55
Abaved Dearn A-Dearn Death-Fear 56
(((To your Huge Smooth Face and Hand 57
From the New Book/A Book Of Torture, 1961
Ode to Jackson Pollock 61
The Chamber 63
ode for Soft Voice 65
Yes Table 66
From for Artaud 66
La Plus Blanche 67
Rant Block 68
From Little Odes, 1961
Ode [The Love and Vision Of the Instant] 73
Ode [Oh Black and Cold I See In] 74
Hummingbird Ode 75
Ode [My Words are Plain] 76
Fantasy Ode 77
Ode [Wildnesses and High Act Lie in a Fabric] 78
From Ghost Tantras, 1964
1 Goooooor! 81
2 Pleasure Fears Me 81
13 ohlovelyline 82
39 Marilyn Monroe 82
49 Silence The Eyes! 83
51 I Love to Think 84
73 The Stars are a Shield 84
99 In Tranquility 85
From Star, 1970
Mad Sonnet 89
Love Lion 90
Cold Saturday Mad Sonnet 91
Mad Sonnet 2 92
Poisoned Wheat 93
From Hail Thee Who Play, 1974
Oh Muse 105
From September Blackberries, 1974
Written above the Sierras/in the Flyleaf of Regis Debray's/Revolution in the Revolution 109
Gray Fox at Solstice 110
Springs 111
From Jaguar Skies, 1975
Poetics 115
Stanzas From Rare Angel, 1975
Loveliness/Of Gold Flakes 119
So now It's Serious 120
Another Spot-Somewhere/Else 121
Love And Hunger Comprise Hatred 123
Durer, Raphael, And Shang Dynasty 124
from Fragments Of Perseus, 1983
Dream: The Night of December 23rd 129
Captives 132
From Rebel Lions, 1984
Dark Brown Eyes of Seals 135
Rose Rain 136
"To Glean the Livingness of Worlds" 137
Dark Contemplation 147
Freewheelin's Tattoo 148
From Simple Eyes & Other Poems, 1993
Spirit's Desperado 151
Mexico Seen from the Moving Car 152
The Butterfly 153
The Cheetah 154
Stanzas from Dolphin Skull, 1995
This Cloud is a Life 157
The Cloud that Raphael Found 158
Stickfigures Of Jack and Jill 159
I am a God With a Huge Face 160
Hold, Let this Moment 161
The Old Rabbit Begins to Wink 163
From Rain Mirror, 1999
From Haiku Edge
Oh Accident! 167
They, It's All Con/Sciousness 167
Pink Bandaid Stuck 168
Moldy/Board 168
Brass/And/Turquoise 169
oh//Hum/Ming/Bird 169
Hey/Driver 170
The Dry/Fir Needle 170
The Fox Turd/as a Cliff 171
The Heron 171
Orion 172
Before Dawn 172
Butterflies 172
From Crisis Blossom
Grafting one 173
Grafting two 174
Grafting five 175
Grafting nine 176
Grafting fourteen 177
Bud 178
Grafting eighteen 179
Grafting nineteen 180
Flower 181
From After the Solstice
"Give Way Or Be Smitten Into Nothingness" 182
From Plum Stones: Cartoons Of No Heaven, 2002
Plum Stone Two 187
Plum Stone Six 190
Plum Stone Fifteen 193
We Sit On Black Cushions 196
Plum 196
Unchanged 197
Swirls In Asphalt
1 A Forest Of Horses 201
2 No More Ferocity 202
3 I Polished The Stars 203
4 The Moment Is Our 204
5 How Badly 205
6 We Go Through This 206
7 The Moment Does Not 207
8 I Love Speaking 208
9 If We Go One Step 209
10 The Cat Lies Against 211
11 The "Contingent Flux" 213
12 "Blind Seeing" 214
13 In The Painted Chamber 215
14 Imagination Enables 216
15 Cascading Synapses 218
6 I Strike Outwards 219
17 Musk Crab Shell 221
18 O Lion Head, Uplift Me 223
19 From The Peak 225
20 The Forest Of Horses 227
21 Samhain 229
22 Swirl Of Asphalt 231
23 Right Here 232
24 Platforms Of Whiteness 234
25 Muscle Tissue Tendon 235
26 Zinging into Senses 236
27 I Save Myself 237
28 Lamb Salmon Prawn 238
29 Proud Of Testosterone 240
30 The Kernel Of Each 241
31 Breadth Of Being 243
32 The Sunset Moment 244
33 Children Are Casualties 245
34 We Swim in the Illumination 247
35 A Vulture Flies Over the Edge 249
36 Liquid Mercury in the Palm 251
37 A Birth Of A Photon 253
38 We Have Always Wanted to Do this 255
39 transiency Like the Shape Of Water 256
40 The Presence Of A Laugh 258
41 Freckles Of White Plum Blossoms 260
42 Let There Be Murders 262
43 The intention Of Creating 264
44 The Music is not so Bright 266
45 Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Meat 268
46 I Am the Full Grown Old Man Here 270
47 A Hunk Of Irrevocable Nothing 272
48 From the Non-Beginning Of the Wave 274
49 The Marching Band in the Forest 276
50 The Pursuit Of Consequence 278
51 Nothing Abolishes Chance 280
52 You Find the Unfinished 282
53 Sspontaneously Perfect Nothing 284
54 lives in the Morning Air 286
55 subtract Us From Ourselves 288
56 Dazed With the Fantasy 290
57 Black Souls are Cleared for Victory 292
58 Miracles Full Blown in Our Faces 294
59 What Good Money Owns Us? 296
60 Old Age in a Nazi Nation 298
61 I Report that 300
62 The Quest of Consciousness is Nada 302
63 No Reason to Hold Back the Party 304
64 Swiftly Moving Jagged Unrecognizable 306
65 No Thundering Footsteps Dissolve 308
Credits 311
Index of Titles and First Lines 313
