Collected Poems by Ceravolo, Commas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction by David Lehman Editor’s Note Transmigration Solo (1960–1965)

Preface Lost Words Life of Freedom Sleep in Park Descending the Slope Feast of Visions Floating Gardens The Women Lights of Childhood Romance of Awakening Invisible Autumn Metaphorical Desert Celebration O Heart Uncovered His Universe Eyes Pain Songs Migratory Noon Contrast Dinosaurs of Pain Frozen Lookout Stolen Away Starting Up Again White Sky Chains of Mountains Resting Pastoral Transmigration Solo In Full View of Sappho Spell of Eternity Note from St. Francis

Water: How Weather Feels the Cotton Hotels (1960) Fits of Dawn (1965)

Introduction

Book I

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Book II

Part 1 Part 2

Book III

“The green lake is awake …” The Crocus Turn and Gods A story from the bushmen

Sea Level (1964) Wild Flowers Out of Gas (1967)

Rain White Fish in Reeds In the Desert The Wind Is Blowing West Indian Suffering Warmth A Song of Autumn Funny Day Spring of Work Storm Autumn-Time, Wind and the Planet Pluto A Story in Winter The Plant Is Growing End Drunken Winter Skies Is It Impossible to Know Where the Impulse Has Originated? Not a Baby Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky Dangers of the Journey to the Happy Land In My Crib Don’t Break It Spring Happiness in the Trees The Book of Wild Flowers

Spring in This World of Poor Mutts (1968)

It Is Morning Caught in the Swamp After the Rain Dusk Heart Feels the Water Lighthouse May Cool Breeze Ocean In the Grass Ho Ho Ho Caribou Red Sun Fill and Illumined Noise Outside Winter Song When the First Tree Blossoms Passivation Doubts Before It Is Destroyed Nothing Floods Sculpture Passion for the Sky Road of Trials Pregnant, I Come Both Close by Me, Both Spring in This World of Poor Mutts Data Autumn Break Lonely in the Park Football Tripod I Like to Collapse Down Soul in Migration Polar Flower Orchard Struggling Grow Risk Fly Mountains The Green Lake Is Awake

The Hellgate (1969–1975)

Part I. Testament Part II. Departure Part III. The Bridge of the Dead Part IV. Purification

Interior of the Poem (1971) INRI (1979)

O Moon Alone Swollen Another World Question Haunting Birth Day Vision Live Today Perched Promontory Bloodsucker Rampant God Earth Trouble Experience Hotel Space Out Mistake Apology No Help Freedom Within Dangerous Journey Worse Enemy Not One Fable Bad Ass Mixture Broken Layout Reborn Futura Internal Rays Apocalypse Awareness Macro Rising Sound Hard or Soft Lighting Up Job The Car Beyond Phony Inside Unable to Move Pass Me By Hard Energy Motion Stupor Cuando Amenecer El Sol Spring Breeze Sleeping One Hunting This Land Old Friend Hung The Gods in Me Future Landscape Imaginary Styx Disasters End of the World Reality Printed Marginal Existence Footing Continuum If I Can’t River Flooded The Forest Wetness Non-spatial Runs Me Over Flight But To Seed Manure A Cave Man’s Dream Ritual Basic Heart The Winds of the Comet Negative Mountain Peak Infinite Thunder Ghost of Spring

Millenium Dust (1982)

Winds of the Comet

Volcano Tears Bright Sun Wet Sand Cross Fire Savage Nocturne A Last Song Spiral Geological Hymn Barbaric The Catskills Today’s Night Sleeping by the Rocks Drunk on the Brain The Spirit Mercury Rhythm White Dwarf Inside Story Escape to Atlantis Winds of the Comet Survival Fire of Myself Body of Earth Not Afraid of the Dark Generations of Clouds Waves Apart Cooling Galaxy The Rocket

Apollo in the Night

Storm Breaking Over Hills Night Wander Cold Night Alone Morning Insults Conception Milky Ways Time on Earth Instantaneous Takes Time That’s Where It Is! Projection Star Song Earthquake Voice on My Birthday Inland Illuminant before Dawn Late Birds Summer Lightning Perpetual Life Apollo in the Night Great Plains A Railway Stop Night Birds

Millenium Dust

Longer Trip Dawn Hunt Cardinal Conjunction Sacred and Profane Ignition of Dawn Body Weight Hymn to Earth Kyrie Eleison Can’t Sleep New Realism Good Friday Mood Birth in the Dunes Shifting Lives Fever Tensions Meadowlands Gravity Awakening To Open Regions Reversals Unemployment Full Bloom Not Really Punishment Nude Madness Crazy Death Park Thoughts Concealed Wound Ocean Body Glass and Steel Structures The New World No More People Brook Millenium Dust Montauk Unfinished Sonnet Dirty Snow Tidelands Final Dimensions After Image

Mad Angels (1976–1988)

1976–1982

Railway Box (Deo Te Salve) Body Jet Love Eyes What It’s Like Espacio Haunting Ghosts Rte 3 into N.Y. Just at the Beginning of Summer Scope Words from a Young Father (Leaving Body) Requiem April Already Assimilation (in the Streets of This City) Night Ride “In one day everything’s green …” Holy Tongues “The night gets lonely …” Crazy in the Night Mayhem “Taking me away....” Sub-Scape Signals Apology “Tie one on, tie it on …” Supplication Positive Disintegration Aurora Lament #1 for Poland Dirt Lament #2 for Lebanon Asia Sunset Middle of Winter (off the Hudson) “It only takes a machine …” Verses of the Soul Suffering to See God

1983

Rain Forest Ode Earth So Beautiful Dominica Forest Dreams Over Music “Hold me light, hold me tight, …” To the Death of a Poet Long Sonnet “Where have I got time …” City Scape Double Blind Concerto (for Epictetus) Guitar Ode “The first August day is over …” Sunburn Linear Ballad The Amphibian “Rain cycle, hold my brains …” “I hear the music from below …” It’s Only Glue Builders (Large Moon Rise) “Here’s a traveler in the womb …” Spirit Matter Tones “All winter the …” Night Flash “Do a little job …”

1984

“The squirrel leaping frightens …” “Sunny day with ice …” Fault (Penance) Planet Sonnet Lament #3 for Bayreuth Forgive City Spring Rise Grand Jury Indian Song Release Jet Resurrection Mother Land Above Clouds Above Legacy (Going Back) “The pains of children …” “Where am I now? …” Serenade No. 1 Why God Should Know the Gods “O Guitar! …” War Silent “Floating emotions …” “O ancient Rivers …” Pre-Christian Simple Creation I Simple Creation II “Minor eruptions in the air …” Dead Sea Scrolls “If I left …” “The migration flaps …” Hermit Gambler Alive Woods Dirty Benediction Elegy Toxic Wastes Autumn Torches Libera Me “I lean on my bus …” “How can I disconnect …” Sonnet Stay Thanksgiving Day “O world without light …” Street Wise Romantic Lament #4 for Ethiopia A Piece of Glass “Happy heart that sows the breeze …” 1984

1985

“My intellect seems to breathe....” If You Loved Me Love Song “Seagulls are in from the sea....” Pages of Storms Hungry “Tile floor, open glass …” Street Journal “Dried up and dogged …” Unfinished Century Sonnet “I’m not weeping and weeping …” Freedom Hospital “This is not the place I want to be …” Incantation Pumping Iron “‘Du bist in meinen Blut’ …” Reggae Mine Courage Morning Vespers “9:01 …” Notoriety—Academy Awards “The streets against their stomachs …” Night Strokes BMX Forecast Ignorance (Strong) Narrative Night “On a night in a distant country …” “I am not able to move …” Sonnet Hidden Bird Lament #5 for Lebanon and Israel Lethal Sonnet “Closer and closer to the ground …” Rain & Wolves Inhabit Me All at Once Life Sentence “There is no way …” Dragons and Dungeons Ode Song Mad Angels One The City Ode Dream Ode “Dry leaves, light trees …” Travelin’ Blue Highway People’s Republic “Volcano mud covering exquisite bodies …” REAL Marketeers Entwined The Comet Returns Litanical The Muscles of Animals First Snow Hymn

1986

New Year “Where are we headed? …” Melody for Food Morning Touched Mid Ocean Lyric “White as a deer’s tail …” Rifle Shot Winter Amor & Psyche Portrait Painter Realistic Stampeding Visualizations “Calm me! …” “A police siren passes in the street …” Darkness Ode Thoughts Modern Sorrows “I walked out. It was raining …” Now “Turn me around in your hands, O wind! …” “I have a bad day today....” “Looking at beetles and ants, …” “Smoke rises like claws that lock me in …” Crescent Moon Reprieve “The purple plant, leaves thick …” Hymn to Rain Bad Thoughts “I work in a dreamscape of reality....” Characters Come Clean Complaint Someone Still Life Morning “The best time is when the body …” “Song birds …” Nuclear Disaster “Does loneliness take over the body …” World War II “Route 3 and lonely …” Mass Discovery Angelic Meditation Week Day Hand Gun “Between a rock and a hard place …” “Am I a fool in the temperate sun …” Subway “Old world, there are roads in front …” “Grind away, trumpet, beat away, …” “How could the comet be …” Breeze Traffic Sonnet “Under high tension towers, …” “Hardly a lightning flies overhead, …” Spirit Blues Der Wanderer “My deepness away from you …” “What is a year ending? …” “Overpayment, underpayment, Florida lakes, …” Observation “It is cold, it is cloudy, …”

1987

“Consecrate the birds, …” Winter Sonnet Hymn A Child Story “I saw a red tail hawk …” Mother & Father (Simple) Hotline for Youth “As if snow could cleanse, …” Subway Walkman Today’s Benediction “It’s the quiet that we …” “Tundra and deer, liberty and fear …” Search Bird Sun Notes on the 20th Century Scientist “‘Crazy nut,’ the girls said. They’re …” Sublimation Unseen Sonnet A Young Couple “Morning breaks …” OK Cat of Eternity Meditation “The multitudes betray the fallen city. The glass …” Irish Entry A Call “Slowly my love, …” An Old Testament Rain Driven Koyaanisqatsi To a Dogwood Tree Beginner Method “The morning is warm. A fan whirling …” Kin Pain Spark “Dark inside me every day …” “Take away the hours of creation, …” “Tunnels are closed....” Perpetual “Somewhere between a missile …” “Million dreams, billion nights, …” “My arms are heavy and I feel …” “Too many times there is …” “Resurrect, reserve, resound. Winter ice …” December “Thank the gods for life …” Starvation “Hidden underground in a frame …”

1988

“All the stars will be gone, …” Irish Entry “Swamps and people live in a lake …” “Turn the screw, bang the nail, …” “8:27, have a language, that bundles …” “When you can choke off the under- …” “A man listens to music next to me, and …” “Happy heart that sows the breeze …” “Song birds enter the morning …” “When I think of all the fuckin’ hours …” “When a spirit comes to me …”

Indexes

Index of Titles Index of First Lines

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