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Religions are poems. They concertour daylight and dreaming mind, ouremotions, instinct, breath and native gestureinto the only whole thinking:..

Inside Ayers Rock is litwith paired fluorescent lightson steel pillars supporting the ceilingof haze-blue marquee clothhigh above the non-slip..

Us all sore cement was we.Not warmed then with glares. Not glutting mushunder that pole the lightning's tied to.No farrow-shit in milk to make us..

Everything except languageknows the meaning of existence.Trees, planets, rivers, timeknow nothing else. They express itmoment by moment as the..

The word goes round Repins,the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,at Tattersalls, men look up from sheets of numbers,the Stock Exchange scribblers forget..

crossfiguredcreeping with tramsand the artists on sundaysin the summerall ‘tracking Nature'in the suburbsItcould have been anyplacebut it wasn'tIt..

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to seethe people of the worldexactly at the moment whenthey first attained the title of‘suffering humanity'They..

The wounded wilderness of Morris Gravesis not the same wild westthe white man foundIt is a land that Buddha came uponfrom a different directionIt is..

People getting divorcedriding around with their clothes in the carand wondering what happenedto everyone and everythingincluding their otherpair of..

I am signaling you through the flames.The North Pole is not where it used to be.Manifest Destiny is no longer manifest.Civilization..

The dog trots freely in the streetand sees realityand the things he seesare bigger than himselfand the things he seesare his realityDrunks in..

I am leading a quiet lifein Mike’s Place every daywatching the champsof the Dante Billiard Parlorand the French pinball addicts.I am leading a quiet..

Away above a harborfulof caulkless housesamong the charley noble chimneypotsof a rooftop rigged with clotheslinesa woman pastes up sailsupon the..

Great Oracle, why are you staring at me,do I baffle you, do I make you despair?I, Americus, the American,wrought from the dark in my mother long..

Freerthan most birdsan eagle flies upover San Franciscofreer than most placessoars high upfloats and glides high upin the stillopen spacesflown from..

And the Wright brothers said they thought they had inventedsomething that could make peace on earth(if the wrong brothers didn’t get hold of it)when..

And the Wright brothers said they thought they had inventedsomething that could make peace on earth(if the wrong brothers didn’t get hold of it)when..

Dove sta amoreWhere lies loveDove sta amoreHere lies loveThe ring dove loveIn lyrical delightHear love's hillsongLove's true willsongLove's low..

And now our governmenta bird with two right wingsflies on from zone to zonewhile we go on having our little fun & gamesat each electionas if it..

Driving a cardboard automobile without a license      at the turn of the century   my father ran into my mother                  on a fun-ride at..

One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman..

The changing light                 at San Francisco       is none of your East Coast light                none of..

A poet is bornA poet diesAnd all that lies betweenis usand the worldAnd the world lies about itmaking as if it had got his messageeven though it is..

The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unrealityJellybeans glowed in the semi-gloomof that september afternoonA cat upon..

The great Chinese dragon which is the greatest dragon in all theworld and which once upon a time was towed across thePacific by a crew of coolies..