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Index of Titles and First Lines
Titles appear in roman type. First lines appear in italics.
9:45 AM, 76
10:30 AM: Ralph Hotere’s, 9
A big-assed, 64
A bitter twitter, 552
A Book, 448
A book of such, 448
A Calendar, 280
A Feeling, 487
A fresh, 64
A Full Cup, 630
A hand’s part, 450
“a lot, 344
A movie of Robert, 209
A Note, 91
A Note, 428
A Valentine for Pen, 497
A View at Evening, 449
Absence, 625
Abstract, 401
Aching sense, 30
Across bay’s loop, 104
After, 104
After, size of place, 259
After Frost, 320
After Pasternak, 295
After School, 614
After so many years the familiar, 428
Afternoon it changes, 437
Again, 263
Age, 206
Age, 335
Age, 445
Age knows little other than its own complaints, 630
Air, 425
“AL, 343
Alex’s Art, 429
Alice, 638
All but, 31
“All girls grown old . . . ,” 226
“All god’s, 341
“All I could see from where I stood, 548
All I ever wanted was, 314
All leaves gone, yellow, 246
All that’s left of coherence, 424
All the various, 463
All the Way, 224
All the ways to go, 359
All this, 343
All Wall, 370
Almost at the dulled, 385
Already night and day move, 281
Always, 248
Amazing grace, 341
Ambition, 210
American Love, 64
An “outside” was always what I wanted, 573
And as the world is flat or round, 244
Ant pushes across rock face, 259
Apolcalypse Now, 43
Apostraphe, 458
Après Anders, 261
Archaic evolving things, 405
Are all your, 278
Are there still some, 119
Around, 342
Arroyo, 168
Art says, 588
Art’s a peculiar division of labors—“a small town cat before he joined the band”—, 429
“Arthur’s friend’s,” 87
As, 456
As If, 570
As if a feeling, come from nought, 570
As we walk past crumbling, 462
As With, 463
As with all such, 463
As you come and go, 456
At the edge, fledgling, 560
At the edge of the evening then, at, 617
At whatever age he was, he was apt with that, 511
Auckland, 23
B. B., 141
Baby Disaster, 254
Back, 273
Back a street is the sunken, 458
Back in time, 250
Back of the head, hand, the hair, 291
Backward—as if retentive, 303
Baler, 43
Balling the Jack Down the Track, 537
Bangs in street, 134
Barcelona: February 13, 1977, 102
Baroque, 404
Be as careful, as rational, 212
Be at That this, 421
Be of Good Cheer, 228
Beach, 104
Bears down on, 381
Beauty’s in eye of the proverbial beholder, 638
Behind things, 18
Beside Her to Lie, 225
Better, 351
Beyond, 211
Bienvenu, 367
Big Time, 446
Billboards, 445
Bill’s brother was partial, 356
Bird and Calf, 408
Birds like, 339
Bit, 343
Black Grackle, 321
Black grackle’s refreshing eyeblink, 321
Blast of harsh, 169
Blood’s on the edge of it, 374
Blue, 340
Blue dressed aged blonde, 392
Blue Moon, 353
Blue Rabbit, 34
Blue Skies Motel, 136
Blue sky, a lurching tram makes, 375
Blues, 122
Blunted efforts as the distance, 555
Blur of world is red smear on white page, 611
Blurred headlights of the cars out there, 254
Boat, 319
Bobbie, 88
Body, 414
Body, 528
Bookcase, 254
Born and bred, 19
Bowl, 391
Box, 207
Box, 318
Bozo, 356
Break down, 135
Break heart, peace, 225
Break the elliptical, 407
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, 38
Breath, 498
Breath as a braid, a tugging, 498
Bresson’s Movies, 209
Brick, 390
Broad Bay, 296
Brown’s another, 341
Bruce & Linley’s House, 17
Brutish recall, 427
Bub and Sis, 587
Buffalo Afternoon, 257
Buffalo Evenings, 222
Buildings, 57
Building’s high bulk lifts, 383
By the Canal/Sitting, 299
“By the Rude Bridge . . . ,” 283
Bye and Bye, 613
Cambridge, Mass 1944, 575
Can you recall, 489
Candle Holder, 345
Cannot want not to, 51
Can’t live, 53
Can’t say much, 637
Cars, 340
Case, 422
Catching Cold, 10
Cat’s rats, Mother’s brother, 423
Cat’s up, 342
Caves, 620
Cebu, 39
Chain, 402
Cheap Thrill, 68
Childish, 116
Choo Choo, 300
Christchurch, 10
Ciano’s, 138
Circles, 225
Classical, 271
Clemente’s Images, 563
Clock, 74
Clouds, 370
Clumped Clares, 302
Coda, 232
Coda, 456
“Come closer. Now there is nothing left, 531
Come round again the banal, 411
Coming Home, 227
Common, 294
Common’s profound bottom, 294
Consolatio, 349
Conversion to Her, 561
Corn Close, 157
Could persons be as this, 386
Could walk on water backwards, 229
Could you see present, 271
Couldn’t guess it, 210
Country Western, 35
Crazy wheel of days, 283
Credo, 484
Creo que si . . . I believe, 484
Crusoe again, confounded, confounding purposes, 631
Curious, coming again here, 502
Cut neat path out, 449
Da. Da. Da da, 23
Dam’s broke, 41
Dance a little, 224
Data, 424
Davao, 42
Davao Insular Hotel, 42
Days, 279
Days the weather sits, 576
Daytime, 342
“De, 343
Dear, 80
Death, 205
Death, 400
Den Alten, 262
Desultory Days, 164
Desultory days, 164
Dialing for Dollars, 300
Do you remember the way we used to sing, 601
Dog Head with Crescent Moon, 407
Dog Head with Rabbit Leg, 407
Dog Leg Wheel, 406
Doggie Bags, 19
Dogs, 245
Don’t go, 29
Don’t take, 19
“Don’t take your love, 38
Door, 425
Dover Beach (Again), 632
Down, 341
Down on the sidewalk recurrent, 163
Down the road Up the hill Into the house, 420
Drawn & Quartered, 538
Dream, 447
Dreams, 201
Dreams, 327
Dried Roses, 538
“Dried roses . . .” Were these from some walk, 538
Driving to the expected, 424
Drunks leaning on your arm, 68
Dumbass clunk plane “American, 232
Dunedin, 7
Dutch Boy, 431
Duty, 422
Each thing given, 449
Early morning far trees lift, 285
Early mornings, in the light still, 198
Early Reading, 225
Ears Idle Ears, 353
Earth, 244
East Street, 403
East Street Again, 410
Eat, 421
Eats, 253
Echo, 88
Echo, 244
Echo, 250
Echo, 257
Echo, 354
Echo, 382
Echo, 395
Echo, 398
Echo, 420
Echo, 427
Echo, 444
Echo, 446
Echo, 453
Echo, 454
Echo, 484
Echo, 632
Echo Again, 424
Echoes, 116
Echoes, 216
Echoes, 341
Echoes, 360
Echoes, 372
Echoes, 425
Echoes, 426
Echoes, 452
Echoes (1), 358
Echoes (2), 358
Echo’s Arrow, 515
Edenic land, Adamic person, 312
Edge, 249
Edge of door’s window, 389
Edge of place, 249
Edges, 444
Edges, 509
Edges and disjuncts, shattered, bitter planes, 536
Edges of the field, the blue flowers, the reddish wash of, 444
Ego, 342
Eight panes, 116
Eight Plus, 339
Eight Plus, 360
Elation’s ghost, 444
Elements, 212
Eleven AM, 459
Emptiness, 598
En Famille, 557
En Route Perth, 31
En Route San Francisco, 85
End, 127
End of page, 127
Entire money, 395
Epic, 82
Epic, 294
Erotica, 107
Evening, 44
“Eventually he dies, 101
Ever, 100
“Ever Since Hitler . . . ,” 368
Ever since Hitler, 368
Everything’s before you, 425
Exoneration’s face, 424
Expect the unexpected, 196
Expectably slowed yet unthinking, 509
Eye hold’s peculiar framed, 406
Eye o’ the Storm, 174
Eyes, 84
Eyes, 343
Eyes, 396
Eye’s reach out window water’s, 325
Face of my, 275
Faded back last night, 45
Faded in face of apparent reality, 613
Fading Light, 383
Fain dusky light, 35
Faint, persistent, 88
Faint Faces, 433
Famous Last Words, 355
Famous Last Words, 359
Far, 423
“Far be it from Harry,” 423
Far from me, 228
Fat Fate, 421
Fathers, 265
“Father’s dead,” 75
Fearful Love, 525
Fields, 345
Figure of Fun, 392
Find your way out, 454
Fire back of grate, 17
First Love, 385
First Rain, 189
First there, it proves to be still here, 529
Five, 339
Five Variations on “Elation,” 443
Flakes falling, 332
Flat out, 340
Flaubert’s Early Prose, 101
Fleurs, 302
Flicker, 267
Focus, 334
Fools, 373
For an Old Friend, 352
For Anya, 573
For Benny, 66
For Cheryl, 31
For Georg, 588
For Gregory Corso, 589
For Hannah’s Fourteenth Birthday, 550
For J. D., 248
For J. D. (2), 255
For J. L., 384
For John Chamberlain, 128
For John Duff, 169
For John Wieners, 613
For Kenneth, 594
For Nothing Else, 404
For nothing else, 404
For Pen, 105
For Pen, 137
For Pen, 139
For Pen, 247
For Rene Ricard, 152
For Ric, who Loved this World, 607
F
or Ted Berrigan, 259
For the New Year, 253
For the World That Exists, 329
For Will, 550
For You, 560
Fort Collins Remembered, 211
Fort William Henry/Pemaquid, 258
Forty, 241
Four, 280
Four, 327
Four Days in Vermont, 499
Four for John Daley, 256
Four to the round, 406
Four Years Later, 132
Four’s, 423
Four’s forms, 423
Fragment, 432
Framed roof slope from tower’s window, 393
Friend, 75
Friend I had in college told, 637
Friend Says of Job, 11
Friend’s story of dead whale on California beach, 275
From the outset, 143
Funeral, 270
Funny, 337
Generous Life, 601
Ghost, 344
Gifts, 74
Given, 489
Giving me things, 74
Glass roses or something else hardly expected—an, 613
Gnomic Verses, 420
Go, 247
Go down obscurely, 228
Go out into brightened, 377
Goat’s Eye, 406
Gods one would have, 245
Going Home, 75
Goodbye, 494
Gotcha, 422
Grandmother I’d thought, 493
Grave, to the will, 102
Great giggles, 256
Great stories matter, 116
Green, 343
Green, how I love you green . . . , 356
Green’s the predominant color here, 197
Greeting Card, 196
Grey blue, 340
Greyed board fence, 257
Ground Zero, 597
Group, 343
H’s, 319
Had gone up to, 266
Had never known blue air’s, 408
Had they told you, you, 402
Had you a dress, 272
Haha, 261
Hamilton, 22
Hamilton Hotel, 22
Hand, 527
Hands, 264
Happiness is its own reward, 638
Hard to be unaddressed, 425
Hard to begin, 280
Hard to believe, 27
Harvested this head’s, 407
Harvey’s Hip, 638
Have a Heart, 422
Have Hannah’s happy health, 319
Have heart Find head, 422
Have I bricked up unbricked what, 390
Having begun in thought there, 414
He comes here, 320
He comes she comes carrying carrying, 391
He is thinking of everyone, 206
He wants to be, 195
He was walking, 395
Head on backwards, 421
Hearts, 280
Heaven, 133
Heaven, 452
Heaven Knows, 241
Heavenly Hannah, 279
Heaven’s up, 339
Heavy, 275
He’d like the edge, 225
Helen’s House, 285
Hello, duck, 250
Help, 341
Help, 366
Help, 496
Help!, 615
Help Heaven, 228
Help heaven up out, 228
Help the holes, 316
Help’s easy enough, 615
Helsinki Window, 365
Helsinki Window, 377
Her voice, 88
Here, 83
Here, 84
Here, 353
Here, 421