The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley

by Robert Creeley

  Here, 424

  Here, 442

  Here, 458

  Here, 633

  Here, on the wall, 32

  Here Again, 35

  Here Again, 395

  Here again, 16

  Here and Now, 401

  Here Only, 399

  Here’s the church, 110

  Here’s to Eddie, 142

  Hermes, god, 183

  Hiccups, 594

  Histoire de Florida, 467

  Histoire de Florida, 476

  Ho Ho, 313

  Holes, 340

  Home’s still heart, 455

  Hong Kong, 54

  Hong Kong—Last Words, 60

  Hong Kong Window, 54

  Horse Leg Dog Head, 406

  Horses’ Breath, 408

  Hotel, 243

  Hotel Lobby, 47

  Hotel Merlin, 51

  Hotel Schrieder, Heidelberg, 260

  How Long, 460

  How long, 460

  How long for the small yellow flowers, 433

  How to live, 74

  However far, 487

  Human Leg Goat Leg, 405

  Human Song, 193

  I am, 632

  I can, 342

  I can’t move, 433

  I can’t speak so, 488

  I could get, 330

  I don’t want to leave, 50

  I Dreamt, 331

  I dreamt I dwelt in a big building, 331

  I hadn’t noticed that, 396

  I have broken, 313

  I interrupt these poems to bring you some lately particular information, 428

  I know what you’d say, 13

  I left it behind, 526

  I left the wagon far too soon, 574

  I look at your, 350

  I Love You, 131

  I love you, says the clock, paradoxically silent, watching, 497

  I recall there being, 292

  I see you, Aunt Bernice, 131

  I Think, 460

  I think, 460

  I took the test, 225

  I wandered lonely as a cloud . . . , 557

  I want to get off, 60

  I want to lay down, 10

  I wanted approval, 256

  I was, 262

  I was at the door, 550

  I was supposed to wake, 201

  I was talking to older, 213

  I was trying to think of when rightly, 612

  I Would Have Known You Anywhere, 291

  “Ich Bin . . . ,” 260

  Ich Bin, 260

  I’d thought, 431

  I’d wanted, 287

  If, 217

  If, 329

  If, as one says, one says, 627

  If ever there is, 598

  If Happiness, 218

  If happiness were, 218

  If I could get, 119

  If I Had My Way, 177

  If I had my way, dear, 177

  “If I Had Thought . . . ,” 519

  If I had thought, 519

  “If I were writing this . . . ,” 592

  If I were writing this, 592

  If it isn’t fun, don’t do it, 213

  If it’s there, it’s something, 537

  If life were easy, 133

  If night’s the harder, 96

  If your hair was brown, 217

  If You’re Going to Have One, 89

  I’ll always, 68

  I’ll always love, 300

  I’ll miss you, 589

  I’ll never forgive myself for the, 609

  I’ll not write again, 104

  I’ll Win, 252

  I’ll win the way, 252

  I’m feeling ok still in some small way, 606

  I’m going to beat, 63

  I’m sure there’s a world I, 306

  Imaginal sharp distances we, 458

  Implicit echo of the, 418

  Improvisations, 339

  In England May’s mercy, 282

  In her hair the, 261

  In other, 353

  In sun’s, 174

  In that strange light, 279

  In the Circle, 457

  In the circle of an, 457

  In the construction, 590

  “In the Diamond . . . ,” 522

  In the diamond, 522

  In the photograph you felt, 269

  In the Rooms, 460

  In the rooms of building James, 460

  In the way it was in the street, 420

  In these few years, 200

  In this life the, 267

  In which the moment, 452

  Indefatigably alert when hit still hurt, 423

  Inn/Kyoto, 65

  Inside My Head, 529

  Inside my head a common room, 529

  Inside that insistence, 416

  Insoluble, 629

  Interior, 293

  Into one’s self come in again, 530

  It, 400

  It ain’t no sin, 275

  It all goes round, 594

  It feels things, 90

  It isn’t in the world of, 243

  “It just plain, 247

  It must be low key, 417

  It seemed your friend, 552

  It was a thoughtful, 446

  It was never, 453

  It was never a joke, 594

  It’s all, 341

  It’s best, 77

  Its fears are, 278

  It’s got to be, 342

  Its mute uncute cutoff, 406

  It’s still, 302

  I’ve come to the old echoes again, 619

  I’ve looked at this wall, 251

  I’ve never had the, 300

  I’ve thought of myself, 369

  I’ve trained them, 245

  Jaws, 82

  John’s Song, 598

  July: Fargo Street, 134

  Jumping with Jackson, 637

  Just in Time, 297

  Just now at five, 220

  Kaput Kasper’s Late Love, 262

  Kid, 224

  Kid’s been crying, 89

  Kids of Kyoto, 66

  Kids/Seoul, 72

  Klaus Reichert and Creeley Send Regards, 372

  Knock Knock, 274

  Knowing what, 175

  Korean slang, 76

  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 47

  Kyoto, 65

  Kyoto, 87

  La Conca, 99

  Lady moon, 247

  Language, 278

  Last day of year, 139

  Late, 355

  Late Love, 263

  Later, 36

  Later, 68

  Later, 90

  Later, 119

  Later, 144

  Later than any time, 36

  Later (Wrightsville Beach), 631

  Learning, 156

  Leaving, 257

  Leaving, 302

  Lecture, 273

  (Lemons) Pear Appears, 537

  Let little Linda allow litigation, 422

  Let the dog lie down with the dog, 587

  Let’s take, 70

  Life, 299

  Life, 359

  Life, 548

  Life & Death, 519

  Life goes on living, 37

  Lift me into heaven, 49

  Lift up so you’re, 425

  Light, 308

  Lights, 330

  Light’s bright glimmer, 141

  Light’s on, 308

  Like in the Brownie Books, 56

  Like kid on float, 489

  Like Mine, 300

  Little, 301

  Little, 339

  Little bit patted pulled, 421

  Little boat, 343

  Lonely in, 257

  Loner, 140

  Long gone time, 78

  Long over whatever edge, 190

  Look, 421

  Look at, 136

  Look at the light, 357

  Looks like chunks, 355

  Loop, 420

  Loop, 526

  Loops, 492

  Lost, 277


  Love, 18

  Love, 106

  Love has no other friends, 191

  Love was my heart, 525

  Lovers, 269

  Lunch and After, 50

  Lunch with its divers, 215

  Magellan was x’ed here, 39

  Magnolia tree out window, 22

  Main and Merrimac, 247

  Manila, 37

  Manila, The Philippines, 35

  March, 385

  March Moon, 281

  Maria Speaks, 71

  Marilyn’s was Norma Jean, 536

  Massachusetts May, 249

  Mas-Soñer, 97

  Maybe, 20

  Maybe, 20

  Meadows, 345

  Measure’s inherent, 438

  Meat, 374

  Mediterranean I, 610

  Mediterranean II, 610

  Memories, 250

  Memory, 64

  Memory, 87

  Memory, 287

  Memory, 591

  Memory, 599

  Memory, 1930, 190

  Memory Gardens, 266

  Men, 32

  Miles, 357

  Miles back, 73

  Millay’s Echoes, 548

  Milton Über Alles, 12

  Mitch, 516

  Mitch was a classmate, 516

  Mommy, 89

  Money, 199

  Month one was born in, 249

  Moral, 421

  Moral, 446

  Morning, 41

  Morning, 114

  Morning, 141

  Morning (8:10 AM), 174

  Most explicit, 335

  Mother’s Photograph, 271

  Mother’s Things, 256

  Mother’s Voice, 200

  My ear teared, 257

  My love is a boat, 208

  My mother just on edge, 300

  My New Mexico, 389

  My Own Stuff, 267

  “My own stuff” a, 267

  Myself, 95

  N. Truro Light—1946, 230

  Names, 536

  Nancy finally, 87

  Nationalgalerie Berlin, 297

  Nationalgalerie’s, 297

  Nature, 109

  Nature Morte, 302

  Negative, 339

  Neighbors, 134

  Never other than this unless, 401

  New England, 242

  New Moon, 119

  New World, 312

  New Year’s Resolution, 375

  News of the World, 112

  Night, 19

  Night, 384

  Night Light, 357

  Night Time, 120

  No end to it if, 280

  No one’s going to, 53

  No resolution, 203

  No sadness, 35

  No safer place to live than with children, 329

  Not Much, 294

  Not much you ever, 294

  Nothing, 259

  Nothing there, 400

  Nothing’s, 172

  Now, 27

  Now and then, 422

  Now I recognize, 494

  Now one might catch it see it, 383

  Now that the weather softens the, 448

  Now the inevitable, 421

  Nowhere up there enough, 372

  Nubble’s Light a sort, 425

  Object, 463

  Of rights Of wrong Of up Of down, 421

  of the nameless, 484

  Offed tv screen’s, 260

  Oh, 229

  Oh, 346

  Oh, do you remember . . . , 608

  Oh Hannie, 279

  Oh I so, 440

  Oh like a bird, 229

  Oh Love, 208

  Oh Max, 232

  “Oh My God . . . ,” 520

  Oh my god—You, 520

  Oh Oh, 422

  Oh stay awhile, 346

  Oh well, it, 339

  Oh your face is there a mirror days, 385

  Old, 278

  Old, 393

  Old Days, 285

  Old Mister Moonlight, 384

  Old persons swinging their canted metal detectors, 476

  Old Poems, 515

  Old Poems, Etc., 484

  Old Saying, 47

  Old Song, 341

  Old Song, 606

  Old Story, 489

  Old Story, 631

  Old Words, 393

  Old-time blues, 122

  On a Theme by Lawrence, Hearing Purcell, 175

  On Board, 89

  On Earth, 627

  On Phrase from Ginsberg’s Kaddish, 226

  On such a day, 278

  On the path, 107

  On the seventeenth, 51

  Once started nothing stops, 205

  One, 95

  One, 180

  One, 189

  One, 241

  One, 291

  One, 389

  One, 467

  One, 535

  One around one, 345

  One bell wouldn’t ring loud enough, 631

  One cannot offer, 254

  One could reach up into, 277

  One could sit, 309

  “One little, 447

  One sided, 420

  One sits vague in this sullenness, 271

  One thing, strikes in, 172

  One Way, 440

  One wishes the herd still wound its way, 515

  One World, 198

  One’s here, 627

  Onward, 440

  Opened door chinks, 284

  Other, 414

  Out, 242

  Out door here, 109

  Out Here, 78

  “Out Here . . . ,” 520

  Out here there, 520

  Out one, 353

  Out the window, 168

  Out window roof’s slope, 194

  Out Window: Taylor’s Mistake, 11

  Outside, 202

  Outside, 461

  Outside the, 382

  Outstretched innocence, 421

  Over the unwritten, 297

  P—, 135

  Palmerston North, 13

  Parade, 438

  Park, 56

  Park, 58

  Particular pleasures weather measures or, 421

  Particularizing “White, 409

  Parts, 405

  Parts of each person, 561

  Pass on by, love, 255

  Passionate increase of particulars, 459

  Passion’s particulars, 422

  Patches of grey, 334

  Patience, a peculiar, 358

  Pat’s, 423

  Pat’s place, 423

  Paul, 609

  Peace, 121

  Peculiar patience is death, 408

  Peculiar that swan should mean a sound?, 530

  People having a good time, 78

  Persian’s, 345

  Personal, 438

  Picture, 256

  Picture, 301

  Pictures, 491

  Pictures, 577

  Place, 70

  Place, 78

  Place, 103

  Place, 312

  Place, 355

  Place in mind, 53

  Place to Be, 576

  Places, 31

  Places one’s come to, 366

  Plague, 334

  Plant’s in, 340

  Plant’s tendrils, 343

  Plate, 314

  Poets, 637

  Point of hill, 293

  Poor, 172

  Possibilities, 570

  Pounding VW motor, 48

  Practice, 446

  Prayer to Hermes, 183

  “Present (Present) . . . ,” 495

  Probable Truth, 77

  Prospect, 197

  Provincetown, 229

  Pure, 396

  Puritan, 340

  Push that little, 247

  Pushing it back to, 230

  Pushing out from, 244

  Put yourself where you’ll be, 81

  Question, 231

  Questions, 269

  Quick stutters of incidental, 243

  Quote,
344

  Rachel Had Said, 230

  Rachel had said, 230

  Reaching out to shake, 264

  Reading, in the chair, 105

  Reading of Emmanuel Levinas, 347

  Reading/Russell Says, “There Is No Rhinoceros in This Room,” 459

  Red, 315

  Reflection, 417

  Reflections, 118

  Religion, 245

  Remember, 54

  Remember? as kids, 269

  Remember sweet Ed, 608

  Remember when, 591

  Remote control factors, 152

  Retrospect, 198

  Rid forever of them and me, 253

  Riddle, 137

  Riding with Sal, 48

  Rippled refractive, 344

  River wandering down, 7

  River’s old look, 285

  Rock me, boat, 319

  Roman Sketchbook, 456

  Roof pours upward, 192

  Room, 243

  Room, 461

  Room for one and all, 626

  Rudimentary characteristic of being, 354

  Sad Advice, 213

  Sad Walk, 619

  Sand here’s like meal, 99

  Sapporo, 68

  Saturday late afternoon, 227

  Save some room, 82

  Say it, 207

  Say nothing, 274

  Say Something, 85

  Say something, 85

  Saying Something, 627

  Scales, 305

  Scatter, 424

  Scattered, aslant, 265

  Scholar’s Rocks, 583

  Sea, 100

  “Sear at the Center . . . ,” 521

  Sear at the center, 521

  Seascape, 343

  Season’s upon us, 422

  See, 341

  See one more person, 82

  Seeing is believing, 248

  Seeing is believing, 490

  Seeing with Sidney people, 352

  Seeming act, 399

  Seemingly awash, 54

  Seemingly never until one’s dead, 241

  Seen right of head, 442

  Self-portrait, 195

  Self Portrait, 394

  Self-shrinking focus, 253

  Senator Blank Blank, 350

  Sense of the present, 403

  Sentences, 423

  Seoul, 76

  Seoul, Korea, 69

  Seoul Sounds, 69

  Set the theme, 219

  Seven, 314

  Seven: A Suite for Robert Therrien, 314

  Seventeenth Floor: Echoes of Singapore, 53

  Shadow, 391

  Shadows, on the far wall, 114

  Shaking hands again, 246

  Shan’t be winding, 144

  She Is, 228

  She’s Back!, 83

  Shimmer, 617

  “Short and Clear,” 583

  Short and clear, dear, 583

  Shovel it in, 582

  Shuddering racket of, 255

  Sidney, Australia, 27

  “SIEMENS” not, 56

  Sight, 325

  Sign, 56

  Signs, 512

  Silence, 488

  Silver, 11

  Simple things, 104

  Simple trips, going, 357

  Since I can’t, 83

  Singapore, 32

  Singapore, 44

  Sins, 450

  Sister remembers, 575

  Sit Down, 18

  Site, 340

  Sitting at table, 286

  Sitting here in limbo, “there are, 31

  Sitting in plane still, 76

  Six, 365

  Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember, 595

  Skin and Bones, 275

  Sky, 448

  Sky cries down, 212