Tales of Sagittarius

Is it safe to get out of bed?

After reading Baudelaire's L'Albatros 

It's raining

Last will

Black, the loathsome shade

At Rishikesh

At Vulture Peak

 

                  Of Distant Friends and Absent Lovers

 

A letter from Michael

Remembering Bob Walker in the California Hills

Aids, the dance of death

Coyote

He's gone, he's gone

 

                 Of Social Relations

Fun in the suburbs

Everybody hustle!

Can you forgive him?

Family values are crawling up and down the walls

What is all this shit about national reconciliation?

 

                  Nine Poems from the Chinese

1. Lo Yin: To Chan Master Wuxiang

2. Sikung Tu: At Oxhead Temple

3. Gu Guang: The Abandoned Monastery

4. Li He: Song of the Sorceress

5. Jia Dao: On the Road

6. Ling I: Looking for Mt. Tian-Mu

7. Cao Zhi: The Flying Dragon

8. Jia Dao: Remembering Chan Master Zongmi

9. Lu You: Light Rain at Sword Pass

 

                  Prose and Found Poems

Hyacinth and Apollo

The Journals of Captain Cook

Homage to Sir Walter Scott

Aeneas in the Underworld

 

                  Buddhist Poems

Introduction

I am the Bodhisattva of Noe Valley

Climbing the Mountain

Maui

Evening Flight to Los Angeles

His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa

Mountain Landscape

Hitchhiking across New York

Hitchhiking back to California

I Welcome a New Houseplant into my Apartment

To a Drunken Poet Living in North Beach

To Freddy the Elf in Mendocino

To the Mayor of Ward Colorado

Sean

Goodbye to Sean

I Putter Around the Apartment, Watering My Plants

At Land's End in May

Buddha's Birthday at Green Gulch

Hakuin's Portrait of Bodhidharma

Meeting Allen Ginsberg

On Strike, 1974

California

New Year's Eve

Alcatraz

Sounds Heard Before Falling Asleep

Waking through the Night

I am a Member of the Rank-and-File Negotiating Committee

I Worked Four Weeks as a Taxi Driver

Remembering Kenneth Rexroth's House

Ad Homines

Sapientia Aedificavit Sibi Domum

Nie treff' ich, wie ich wünsche, das Maß

November Full Moon in Iowa

Getting Ready for the American Bicentennial

About the Poet

Zazen Each Morning before Dawn

 

                  Various Poems   (1977)

To Poverty

On his 36th Birthday

Sixteen Enormous Blessings

Poem Written on the Day of the Lunar Eclipse

On the Highway from Happy Camp to Eureka

Hiking across Prairie Creek Forest

On Mt. Tamalpais in March

Evening Walk in November

The White Marigold

Missus est Gabrielus Angelus

The Vision of St. Hubertus

In Festo Pentecostes

Anthem for the Foundling Hospital

This Small Press Life

To Posterity, in the Event of an American Tri-centennial

Flora as Saskia

Memo from the General Manager's Office

Concerning an Application for Public Credulity Submitted by St. John the Baptist

During the 1976 City Strike

Unemployment Heaven

Saturday Night Gothic

Some Marginalia Appended to the Journals of an Unsuccessful Medievalist

Christmas Eve at the Cathedral

Memories of Janis Joplin

Plaisirs de Berkeley 1975

Malheurs de Berkeley 1979

Three short ones

 

                  Poems from the Sixties

Sebastian Quill poems

The Red and Silver Motorcycle

Melancholia

Goodbye, Jacob, beside a crumbling river

Tales of Chip and Dewaine beneath the Christmas lotus

The poet receives his first haircut in 10 1/2 months 

Mrs. Jackson over cornbread with Jupiter falling

Like a rolling stone

I write poetry a good deal now

Here the poet, cognizant

How to become a hero of homosexuality

Hiccups

Poem in winter to a friend in the West

Los Angeles, 1967

Quicksilver Messenger Service

New Year 1969