The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley

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by Robert Creeley

Slats in, 340

  Sleeping birds, lead me, 563

  Slight you lift, 432

  Slope of it, 414

  Small birds fly up, 127

  Small glass, 345

  Small horses on windowsill, 134

  Small Time, 367

  Smaller, no recall, 224

  Snake Fish Bird, 405

  Snow lifts it, 223

  Snowman, 316

  So careful, 227

  So Much, 381

  So much of my childhood seems, 620

  So There, 23

  Some, 397

  Some Echo, 221

  “Some sunny, 341

  “Something, 173

  Somewhere Allen Ginsberg is, 599

  Somewhere in all the time that’s passed, 535

  Song, 191

  Song, 291

  Sonnets, 411

  Sound, 255

  Sounds, crank, 140

  Sounds like ball, 84

  Soup, 13

  Space, 342

  Sparks Street Echo, 332

  Sparrows, 127

  Specific, intensive clarity, 299

  Speech, 104

  Speed is what’s needed, 538

  Split broken un-, 384

  Spring in San Feliu, 125

  Spring Light, 386

  Squat round stone tower, 258

  Stairway to Heaven, 293

  Stand up, heart, and take it, 199

  Star, 426

  Statement keep talking, 424

  Steady, the evening fades, 222

  Step through the mirror, 216

  Still Dangers, 219

  Still morning, 71

  Still Too Young, 213

  Stone, 212

  Straight, 314

  Stripped trees in the wet wind, 373

  Stuck in her stone hut, 263

  Styles of drinking, the cool, 83

  Such familiar space, 434

  Such Flowers, 222

  Such flowers can bloom, 222

  Such small dimension, 305

  Such space it comes again to be, 531

  Suddenly here, 65

  Sufi Sam Christian, 49

  “Suggestion / recognition . . . ,” 156

  Summer, 217

  Summer Nights, 283

  Summer ’38, 425

  Sun on the edge of leaves, 625

  Sun out window’s, 47

  Sunrise always first, 426

  Sun’s, 340

  Supper, 270

  Supper, 582

  Suppose it all turns into, again, 273

  Sure I fell in love, 27

  Sweet sister Mary’s gone, 248

  Sweltering, close, 54

  Swim, 135

  . . . Swoop of hawk, 155

  Table Top, 345

  Taegu, 73

  Talk, 72

  Talk, 172

  Talking, 45

  Talking, 612

  Talking Ginsbergian, 72

  Tall, 84

  Teacher, 344

  Tell Story, 231

  Tell story, 231

  Texas Reverse, 341

  Thanks, 142

  Thanks for, 198

  Thanksgiving’s Done, 246

  That curious arrowed sound up, 461

  “That’s the way, 5

  The, 64

  The American Dream, 536

  The Ball, 626

  The big, 344

  The Cart, 339

  The chair’s still there, 353

  The Children, 163

  The Chinese, Koreans, 89

  The clouds passing over, the, 370

  The Company, 291

  The Company, 303

  The cranky low decked freighter with orange stickup, 610

  The Cup, 402

  The Doctor, 275

  The Dogs of Auckland, 502

  The Door, 280

  The Drunks of Helsinki, 375

  The ducks are gone, 384

  The Edge, 190

  The Edge, 344

  The emptiness up the field where, 598

  The expandable enveloping that flesh, 463

  The Faces, 219

  The faces with anticipated youth, 219

  The Fact, 180

  The forthright, good-natured faith, 241

  The ground seems almost stolid, 221

  The Heart, 590

  The House, 97

  The inertia unexpected of, 401

  The Kids, 339

  The Last Mile, 176

  The last waltz, 217

  The light now meets, 202

  The little bed, 491

  “The Long Road . . . ,” 522

  The long road of it all, 522

  The Mirror, 490

  The mommy, 89

  The Movie Run Backward, 209

  The Old Days, 418

  The old ones say, “The peach keeps its fuzz until it dies.” It seemed for, 512

  The other who I’d be, 492

  The peculiar fuck it, 393

  The pinwheel’s pink, 342

  The Place, 155

  The Place, 437

  The Puzzle, 629

  The Red Flower, 628

  The return of things, 453

  The rippled, shelved, 299

  The Road, 434

  The Rock, 246

  The room next to, 293

  The Rose, 530

  The same inexhaustible sea with impenetrable, 610

  The scale’s wrong. Kid’s, 301

  The Seasons, 323

  The Skull, 531

  The sky’s like a pewter, 268

  The Sound, 198

  The sounds, 607

  The Star, 531

  The stars stay up there where they first were, 360

  The Street, 463

  The Swan, 530

  The Table, 114

  The Tally, 286

  The Terribly Strange Bed, 292

  The Tools, 529

  The tree stands clear in the weather, 410

  The trees are kept, 365

  The upper part is snow, 268

  The View, 192

  The Visit, 203

  The wall is at, 524

  The waves keep at it, 632

  The Way, 535

  The Willys, 301

  The window, 307

  The window had, 306

  The Winner, 63

  The woman who, 263

  The words will one day come, 209

  The Wordsworths, 441

  The Wordsworths afoot, 441

  The World, 295

  The world is, 307

  The world so sweet its, 295

  Then, 29

  Then, 81

  Then, 306

  Then to old Uncle Emil, 262

  There, 73

  There, 203

  There, 278

  There, 399

  There, 425

  There, 524

  There (1), 574

  There (2), 574

  There are continuities in memory, but, 190

  There are no words I know, 180

  There are words voluptuous, 106

  There is a shadow, 391

  There is no, 47

  There Is Water, 205

  There is water, 205

  There’s a big, 339

  There’s a way out, 355

  Theresa’s Friends, 143

  These retroactive small, 189

  They paid my way here, 128

  They were going up in, 314

  Things going quiet, 34

  Things to Do in Tokyo, 60

  Think of a grand metaphor, 180

  Think of the, 425

  Think of the good times, 125

  Think of the size of it, 245

  Think that it’s all one?, 295

  Thinking, 369

  Thinking, 493

  Thinking, 575

  [Thinking of L.Z., “That one could, etc.”], 64

  Thinking of Wallace Stevens, 428

  Thinking of Walter Benjamin, 110

  Thinking of Y
eats, 135

  Thinking out, 137

  This bluish light behind the block of, 384

  This Day, 175

  This day after, 175

  This distance, 577

  This face was detachable, 394

  This here, 341

  This House, 434

  This intensive going in, 358

  This is an empty landscape, 103

  This Room, 449

  This sudden, 443

  This way to end, 527

  This World, 96

  Those are hills out there, 317

  Thought feels the edges, 575

  Thought out of self, 347

  Three, 164

  Three, 222

  Three, 265

  Three, 314

  Three, 433

  Three, 519

  Three, 575

  Time, 53

  Time, 194

  Time, 421

  Time, 433

  Time’s Fixed, 451

  Time’s fixed, 451

  Time’s more than, 270

  To be backed, 211

  To move in such a fashion through nine countries (Fiji was my first, 91

  To My, 634

  To My/Little: Pen’s Valentine, 634

  To Say It, 220

  “To think . . . ,” 606

  To think oneself again, 606

  Toffee, 421

  Tokyo, 78

  Tokyo, Japan, 60

  Tonight possibly they’ll, 198

  Too Late, 242

  Topical questions, 112

  Touchstone, 173

  Train Going By, 139

  Translation, 394

  Tree, 296

  Tree limbs’, 340

  Trees haze in the fog coming in, 392

  True or False, 447

  Twenty-five, 537

  Two, 128

  Two, 208

  Two, 251

  Two, 305

  Two, 409

  Two, 484

  Two, 557

  Two candles, 342

  Two Kids, 214

  Two kids, small, 214

  Two weeks from now, 114

  Unlet things, 400

  Up a hill and down again, 633

  Up from reflective, 342

  Up Here, 53

  Up over the edge of, 283

  Up the edge of the window out to, 329

  “Urgent” what the message says, 438

  USA, 352

  Vacation’s End, 284

  Valentine, 272

  Valentine, 455

  Valentine for You, 634

  Verde, 356

  Versions, 204

  Vertical skull time, 370

  Villa Celimontana, 462

  Virtues, 340

  Vision, 245

  Voice, 381

  Waiting, 218

  Waiting, 264

  Waiting, 300

  Waiting, 309

  Waiting for a Bus “En Frente de la Iglesia,” 110

  Waiting for the object, 264

  Waiting to see if, 43

  Wake up, 60

  Waldoboro Eve, 392

  Walk, 461

  Walk out now as if, 461

  Walking, 138

  Walking, the way it used to be, 632

  Walking on, 445

  Walking street back here, 44

  Wall, 251

  Wall, 351

  Wanting to tell, 294

  War, 611

  War & Peace, 51

  Warm, 9

  Was it thunk suck, 323

  Watching, 462

  Watching incredible kids, 72

  Water, 348

  Water all around me, 231

  Water’s a shimmer, 296

  “We cannot give you any support, 440

  Weather’s a funny, 174

  We’d set off into the woods, 614

  Weigh, 344

  Weird, flat seeming, 69

  Welcome to this bienfait, 367

  Well if ever, 574

  Wellington, 16

  Wellington, New Zealand, 5

  Were there answers where they were, 515

  Were you counting the days, 218

  West Acton Summer, 423

  What, 350

  What, 380

  What, younger, felt, 95

  What became of your novel with the lunatic, 352

  What do you think, 318

  What do you wear?, 570

  What had one thought the, 380

  What has been long pondered, 583

  What is it pure, 396

  “What is Williams’ (Raymond’s) tome . . . ,” 495

  What kind of crows, 372

  What one might say, 375

  What one thinks to hold, 628

  What pomposity, 118

  What to say, 110

  What twisting thought, 528

  What was to talk to, 273

  What would a baby be, 193

  What would it be, 350

  What you don’t, 344

  What you got, 446

  What you think you, 327

  What’d you throw it on the floor for?, 137

  Whatever, 371

  Whatever was else or less, 436

  Whatever’s, 371

  What’s after or before, 597

  What’s gone, 141

  What’s gone is gone, 349

  What’s heart to say, 550

  What’s in the body you’ve forgotten, 291

  What’s still here settles, 360

  What’s the truth, 447

  What’s to be said, 176

  Wheels, 345

  “When April with his showers sweet, 281

  When he was a kid sick, 381

  When I consider, 12

  “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer . . . ,” 552

  When I think, 605

  When I think of where I’ve come from, 605

  When I was a kid, 139

  “When It Comes . . . ,” 523

  When it comes, 523

  When it goes, 315

  When my mother, 132

  “When That Aprille . . . ,” 281

  When the light leaves, 120

  When the world has become a pestilence, 334

  Whenas To for, 422

  Where, 307

  Where, 426

  Where have we drifted, 548

  “Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang . . . ,” 555

  Where to go, 302

  Wherefrom, whereto, 634

  Wherever they’ve, 452

  Whether in the world below or above, 211

  Which Is to Say, 81

  Which one are you, 626

  Which the way echoed, 405

  Which Way, 626

  Which way did they go?, 359

  White Fence/White Fence, 409

  White light blocked, 398

  Who had thought, 402

  Who said you didn’t want, 496

  Why did that man, 58

  Why didn’t I call to the, 462

  Why does it cry so much, 399

  Why isn’t it funny when you die, 337

  Why not make them, 57

  Why so curiously happy, 367

  Why was grandma, 270

  Why would she come to him, 204

  “Wild Nights, Wild Nights,” 552

  Will you be dust, 18

  Wind lifts lightly, 208

  Wind Lifts, 208

  Window, 30

  Window, 268

  Window, 305

  Window, 306

  Window, 342

  Window Seat, 342

  Window’s tree trunk’s predominant face, 499

  Wings, 317

  Winter, 223

  Winter, 422

  Winter Morning, 268

  Winter Night, 383

  Wish, 632

  Wishes, 215

  With all I know, 203

  Within pitiless, 242

  Wittgenstein’s insistence to Russell’s, 459

  Women, 68

  Won’t It Be Fine?,
511

  Words, 424

  Words again, rehearsal, 157

  Work, Christian, work!, 242

  World’s becoming shrunk to, 461

  Worry, 227

  Would it be better, 351

  Would you live your life spectrum, 404

  Write in air, 68

  Wyatt’s May, 282

  X, 365

  Xmas, 306

  Yah, 27

  Yeah, 341

  Yesterdays, 595

  Yonder, 339

  You, 200

  You, 332

  You all, 341

  You Bet, 339

  You can push as hard as you want, 351

  You could do everything, 81

  You couldn’t get it, 42

  You didn’t think you, 10

  You get to see all kinds of life, 11

  You have all the time been, 394

  You have not simply, 397

  You have to reach, 424

  You tree, 296

  You tried to answer the questions attractively, 242

  You were leaving, going, 332

  “You Were Never Lovelier . . . ,” 416

  You will remember little of yourself, 200

  You’ll love me, 75

  Your, 420

  “Your, 344

  Your face, 312

  Your personal world echoes, 348

  You’re getting fat, 80

  You’re looking at a chopper, 121

  You’re there, 467

 

 

 


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