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  • Energy

         In 1593 Calingicus Wrote a tract on the mortality of birds. I do not desire to point out how much error Traces his diagrammatic sureness, only To say he saw the species at a new angle, Being somehow reminded in their motion Not of the dilated freedom we live in But of the tight chain…

  • Vacations

    An open shell, Two bone breasts In my sand hand. You next to me, Lobster red, Wild-eyed, embarrassed, Your claws empty, Our minds picked clean by the sun. And the next day our boat went down, Gulls laughing like tourists. Friends, old spongers, dropped by, Lead-headed divers, Squat gas pumps, worry Spinning in their amber…

  • Linwood Place in Snow 2/9/69 2-2:15 pm

    (for Larry Eigner of Lynn) outside the window            the Japanese pine is bentheavy w/snow      & the yellow commune-house looks lk/somewherelse here in #2 i’m sackedout on the offthesidewalk couch            brought from the old house & the house before. it’s quiet. the Salvation Army is quiet even on Sunday,            the heads in the…

  • Journal Excerpts

    I Today the idea of writing poetry is generally an absurdity. Too many of us must come home from a day's routine labor before we can sit down to think and/or feel poetry within us. Flashes come and go during the working day and it is possible we see the world constantly through our poetic…

  • Death Dreams

    My hand falling As if to reach under it. My black thumb, black tongue, Tasting the tear of the moth wing.      The milk skim of my eye torn,      The thorned leg of the locust      Probing the pin of oil,      My last seeing. Knees unbending Like the last wave of ocean, Sheet of sky settling.      A…

  • The Haitian Campaign

         And so was I, the camera, instructed to pan the island’s landscape, to zoom toward its capitol city. My body snapped, reclattered and shuttered to the rapid rhythm of spent flash bulbs which left purple wisps of (MGM Exploits Standard Fruit) glassy smoke across the skies of the Northern Province. Typhoid babies sucked death while…

  • Contributors’ Notes

    EDITORIAL BOARD Coordinating Editors: DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Editorial Staff: George Kimball Andrew Littauer Kip Crosby Bruce Bennett Steven Sands Norman Klein Art Director: David Omar White Business Manager: Tom Hargadon CONTRIBUTORS From Outside U.S.A. HUGH MAXTON has a book of poems published by Macmillan Co., attended Wesley College, Dublin, went on to Trinity College…

  • Out of Work

    It is unmanly to be gorging a hot fudge sundae, nuts and whipped cream in the afternoon. There are only women here with their shopping. Worse than sleeping late getting up after your wife has left for work. Yesterday I recognized myself coming out of a double feature into the sunlight.