Poems by Larry Levis
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To a Wren on Calvary
... s withheld, While elsewhere on a hill, small hawks (or are they other birds ...
Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It
... in no other Was the soul gradually replaced by the tens of thousands ...
At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
... e our little apartment under the freeway overpass, the cups on the mantle rattling continually&mdash ...
Family Romance
... Outside the tool shed in the noon heat, while our father ...
Elegy For Poe With The Music Of A Carnival Inside It
... If they're Awake, they gaze off as if onto a distant landscape, ...
The Assimilation Of The Gypsies
... 1963. And if Koudelka tells us nothing else about this scene, ...
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex
... . . Sometimes, walking in that crowd, I became the crowd, &, for that moment, it felt ...
Elegy For Whatever Had A Pattern In It
... The web Is nothing's blueprint, bleached by the sun & whitened by it, it's what's left ...
The Poem You Asked For
... my clothes, my car with a full tank ...
Blue Stone
... Someday, when you are twenty-four and walking through ...
Labyrinth As The Erasure Of Cries Heard Once Within It Or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded Later)
... . . honored. And Mister Crane, the year I left the South, ...
Elegy With A Bridle In Its Hand
... Until he saw the air itself, just air, the clarity that took the shackles from his eyes ...
Words For The Axe
... Whoever it is that holds me, my one friend, ...
In 1969
... I still felt The birds flight in my body when I thought about it, the wing ache, ...
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