Now I’ll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God:It was no dream, I lay broad waking on a fabulous couch in Harlemhaving masturbated for no love,…
Under silver wing San Francisco’s towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below–Dr Leary in his brown house scribing Independence Declaration typewriter at window silver panorama in natural…
The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the kitchen crooked to take a place in the light, the closet door opened, because I used it before, it kindly stayed open…
“Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative…” I came home and found a lion in my living roomRushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion!Two stenographers pulled their brunnette hair…
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The…
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for the Los Angeles Express to depart worrying about eternity over…
Lento You’ll bare your bones you’ll grow you’ll pray you’ll only knowWhen the light appears, boy, when the light appearsYou’ll sing ; you’ll love you’ll praise blue heavens aboveWhen the…
Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river –he’s the son of the absconded hot rod angel– and he imagines cars and rides them in…
Millions of babies watching the skiesBellies swollen, with big round eyesOn Jessore Road–long bamboo hutsNoplace to shit but sand channel ruts Millions of fathers in rainMillions of mothers in painMillions…
railroad yard in San Jose I wandered desolate in front of a tank factory and sat on a bench near the switchman’s shack. A flower lay on the…