Robert Creeley Poems

Comes the time when it's later
and onto your table the headwaiter
puts the bill, and very soon after
rings out the sound of lively laughter--
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Window's tree trunk's predominant face
a single eye-leveled hole where limb's torn off
another larger contorts to swell growing in around
imploding wound beside a clutch of thin twigs
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Having begun in thought there
in that factual embodied wonder
what was lost in the emptied lovers
patience and mind I first felt there
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The first retainer
he gave to her
was a golden
wedding ring.
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Yesterday I wanted to
speak of it, that sense above
the others to me
important because all
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He wants to be
a brutal old man,
an aggressive old man,
as dull, as brutal
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Inside my head a common room,
a common place, a common tune,
a common wealth, a common doom
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I dreamt last night
the fright was over, that
the dust came, and then water,
and women and men, together
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It is all a rhythm,
from the shutting
door, to the window
opening,
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There is that in love
which, by the syntax of,
men find women and join
their bodies to their minds
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