Category: Summer 2012 Poetry

Night Streets Crystal
by Ron Loewinsohn The streets at night Run broad and bright deep into the heart where they take me to myself. The streets at night Are filled

Zero: The Fool
by Ron Loewinsohn His sky is the same yellow as his boots, which appear to be thin and ill – suited for the craggy heights where he dances

Blood and Sand
by Jack Spicer It is as if the poem moves Without the poem. I have captured you. Done all my will. Have done with all Emotion. There is

Glenn Todd
by Charles Plymell We’ve seen the trace of tears on dusty Texas cheeks and cliffs of far away Pacific spray eat away timeless

Collateral Damage for Joanna McClure
by Charles Plymell The moon is sometimes bathed in night’s full light and the earth is aroused as when a woman bathes turns in her phases

red Fred’s piano
by John Wieners low down and dirty I sit having found the connection Eddy and Taylor to day they reprint Cocteau’s Diary of a cure I am hooked

Milton
by John Wieners down at the corner I worked in the variety & Drug store having nothing to do I hung out with kids at the wall in a small

Bag Dad by the Bay for Harry the H
by John Wieners There’s a little cabin in the sky mister on Fillmore

For What Time Stays
by John Wieners All the best poems since The Hotel Wentley Poems. Scheduled for publication Summer 1962. A sample: The fog flung over the fields.

The Kyoto Journals and Floating California
by Philip Whalen Three haiku and journal entries excerpted from the Philip Whalen Papers, circa 1940–2001, were transcribed and edited by Brian