Robert Creeley

–Online Poems Essay, Research Paper


Still Life Or


mobiles:


that


the wind can catch at,


against itself,


a


leaf or a contrivance of wires,


in the stairwell,


to be looked at from below.


We have arranged the form of a formula here,


have taken the heart out


&


the wind


is vague emotion.


To count on these aspirants


these contenders for the to-be-looked-at part


of these actions


these


most hopeful movements


needs


a strong & constant wind.


That


will not rise above the speed


which we have calculated,


that


the leaf


remain


that


the wires


be not too much shaken.


? 1987 Robert Creeley


Online Source: http://www.diacenter.org/diacenter/prg/poetry/87_88/creeley1.html


THE LANGUAGE


Locate I


love you some-


where in


teeth and


eyes, bite


it but


take care not


to hurt, you


want so


much so


little. Words


say everything.


I


love you


again,


then what


is emptiness


for. To


fill, fill.


I heard words


and words full


of holes


aching. Speech


is a mouth.


? 1987 Robert Creeley


Online Source: http://www.diacenter.org/diacenter/prg/poetry/87_88/creeley3.html


OLD STORY


Like kid on float


of ice block sinking


in pond the field had made


from winter’s melting snow


so wisdom accumulated


to disintegrate


in conduits of brain


in neural circuits faded


while gloomy muscles shrank


mind padded the paths


its thought had wrought


its habits had created


/>

till like kid afloat


on ice block broken


on or inside the thing it stood


or was forsaken.


? 1994


Online Source: http://www.diacenter.org/diacenter/prg/poetry/94_95/creeley.html


Goodbye


Now I recognize


it was always me


like a camera


set to expose


itself to a picture


or a pipe


through which the water


might run


or a chicken


dead for dinner


or a plan


inside the head


of a dead man.


Nothing so wrong


when one considered


how it all began.


It was Zukofsky’s


"Born very young into a world


already very old…"


The century was well along


when I came in


and now that it’s ending,


I realize it won’t


be long.


But couldn’t it all have been


a little nicer,


as my mother’d say. Did it


have to kill everything in sight,


did right always have to be so wrong?


I know this body is impatient.


I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind.


Yet I loved, I love.


I want no sentimentality.


I want no more than home.


"Goodbye" first appeared in The Exquisite Corpse (1996)


Online Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~euphorb/Issues/Spring96/works/GOODBYE.html


ZERO


for Mark Peters


Not just nothing,


Not there’s no answer,


Not it’s nowhere or


Nothing to show for it -


It’s like There’s no past like


the present. It’s


all over with us.


There are no doors…


Oh my god! Like


I wish I had a dog.


Oh my god!


I had a dog but he’s gone.


His name was Zero,


something for nothing!


You like dog biscuits?


Fill in the blank.


Online Source: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ezines/deluxe/five/bob.html

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