The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (85 page)

(Keep my)

(Peter Rabbit came in)

(With)

(You’ll do good if you play it like you’re)

1. Le Marteau Sans Maitre : Pierre Boulez (Odyssey 32 16

(2) photographs of Anne

3 Pages

4 Metaphysical Poems

5 New Sonnets: A Poem

7 Things I Do in the Hotel Chelsea

9:16 & 2:44 & 25 Minutes to 5

10 Things I Do Every Day

10 Things I do Every Day

10 years of boot

XIII

20th Century man strives toward the unfinished-machine exalted state

30
(The fucking enemy shows up)

36th Birthday Afternoon

43
(no strange countries)

44th Birthday Evening, at Harris’s

80th Congress

a band of musicians: up tight

A Boke

A Certain Slant of Sunlight

A colorful river of poetry drives forward

A City Winter

A darksome tiger

A Dream

A drop of boo the wounded ham

a faint smile appears

A few rape men or kill coons so I bat them

À la Recherche du Temps Perdu

A Letter

A Letter from Dick Gallup

A Little American Feedback

“A little loving can solve a lot of things”

A lovely body gracefully is nodding

A master square weaver, one’s favoured medium

A Meeting at the Bridge

a metal fragrant white

A natural bent, no doubt

A New Old Song

A new old song continues. He worked into the plane

a nose, heavy, square, & massive

A Note from Yang-Kuan

A person can lie around on an uncrowded beach

A Personal Memoir of Tulsa, Oklahoma / 1955–60

A Quiet Dream

A Religious Experience

A Reply to the Fragile

A Spanish Tragedy

A sparrow whispers in my loins

A True Story

A woman’s love

(About Emily Dickinson)

Above his head clanged

Abraham & Sarah

According

Acid

Acid

Across the trolley tracks

After Breakfast

After Peire Vidal, & Myself

After Petrarch

After the first death there is plenty

Ah, Bernie, to think of you alone, suffering

“Ah Fitz but we are profound

Air

Air Conditioning

All A-Glower Went My Love Riding

All my friends in the

“All things considered, it’s a gentle & undemanding

Allen & Peter, heads close together, Allen

Allen Ginsberg’s “Shining City”

Ambiguity

American Express

Amityville Times

Amsterdam

An Autobiography in 5 Parts

An Ex-Athlete, Not Dying

An Observation

An Orange Clock

An UnSchneeman

and I am lost in the ringing elevator

& so I took the whole trip

“And the nights shall be filled with music

And then one morning to waken perfect-faced
(Interstices)

And then one morning to waken perfect-faced
(Sonnet XXXI)

Andy Butt was drunk in the Parthenon

Angst

Ann Arbor Elegy

Ann Arbor Song

Anne

Anne Lesley Waldman says, No Fossil Fuels

Anne reads her Troubadour poem

“Another has

Another New Old Song

Anselm

Anselm! Edmund!

Anselm Hollo

Anselm is sleeping; Edmund is feverish, &

Anti-War Poem

“Antlers have grown out the top of my shaggy head”

Apollinaire Oeuvres Poetiques

Apologies to Val & Tom

“appropriately named Beauty, has just been a star

April in the Morning, with Anne

Around the Fire

As Usual

Ass-Face

At a quarter past six he sat & said “where’s your brother? pull

At 80 Langton Street (S.F.)

At last I’m a real poet I’ve written a

At Loma Linda

Aubade

Autobiography

Autobiography

Autumn

Autumn is fun

Autumn’s Day

Avec la Mécanique sous les Palmes

Babe Rainbow

Baby sighs prepositions put the books back nights. As usual I

Back in the Old Place

Back to dawn by police word

Bad Teeth

Bad Timing

banging around in a cigarette she isn’t “in love”
(Sonnet XLI)

banging around in a cigarette she isn’t “in love”
(Sonnet LVI)

Baltic Stanzas

Bardolino

Be awake mornings. See light spread across the lawn

Bean Spasms

bear with me

bear with me

Beautiful girl

Beautiful Poem

Beauty, I wasn’t born

became in Alamogordo. Then the blast
-

Beer in bed, &

Before I began life this time

Before I was alive

Beginning with a memory of childhood New York’s lovely weather

bent

bent

Besa

Beware of Benjamin Franklin, he is totally lacking in grace

Biddy Basketball

Black & White Magic

Black brothers to get happy

Black Power

blank mind part

Blindfold shores leaving sad

Blue

Blue Galahad

Blue Herring

Blue Targets

Blue Tilt

Bolinas

borrow 50 from George

Boulder

Brigadoon

Brother and sister departed

Buddha on the Bounty

Buddhist Text

Buenos Aires

“But & then at that time

But that dream . . . oh, hell

Butchie’s Tune

By Now

Bye-Bye Jack

Caesar

Caesar’s ghost must be above suspicion

Can’t cut it (night)

Canzone

Carrying a Torch

Category

Cento: A Note on Philosophy

C’est automne qui revient

Chair

Che Guevara’s Cigars

Chicago April Morning: Snow

Chicago English Afternoon

Chicago Morning

Childe of the House

Chinese Nightingale

Christmas Card (for Barry & Carla)

Christmas Card (O little town of Bethlehem)

Christmas in July, or

(clarity! clarity!) a semblance of motion, omniscience

Climbed by Grandma We Stand on Morning’s Hill

Clown

Coda : Song

Coffee And

Cold rosy dawn in New York City

Come to Chicago

Communism

Compleynt to the Muse

Conceived in Hate

Congratulations

Connecticut

Contemporary Justice

Conversation

Corporal Pellegrini

Corridors of Blood

Cowboy Song

Cranston Near the City Line

Crash

Craze Man Wiliiker

Creature

Crossroads

Crystal

DNA

“Dear Chris

Dear Management’s beautiful daughters

Dear Marge, hello. It is 5:15 a.m
. (Night Letter)

Dear Marge, hello. It is 5:15 a.m
. (Sonnet XVIII)

Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m
. (Sonnet II)

Dear Ron: Keats was a baiter of bears etc
.

Dear Ron: hello. Your name is now a household name

December

Déjà Vu

Der Asra

Despair farms a curse, slackness

Dial-A-Poem

Dice Riders

Dick Gallup (Birthday)

Did you see me that night

Dinner at George & Katie Schneeman’s

Dinosaur Love

Discussing Max Beerbohm

“Do you

Do You Know Rene?

Don Quixote & Sancho Panza

Don’t call me “Berrigan”

Don’t Forget Anger

Doubts

Down Moon River

Down on Me

Down on Mission

Dreamland

Dreams, aspirations of presence! Innocence gleaned

Dreamy-eyed is how you get

Dresses for Alice

dying now, or already dead

Each tree stands alone in stillness

Easter Monday

Easy Living

“Eileen” (detail)

El Greco

Elysium

Entrance

Epithalamion

Erasable Picabia

Evelyn Waugh’s Prayer

Evensong

Every day back & forth

Every day when the sun comes up

Every man-jack boot-brain slack-jaw son of a chump

Everybody is not so clever as you. You are cleverer than I

Everybody Seemed So Laid Back in the Park

Everything good is from the Indian

Everywhere we went we paid the price, endurement

Excursion & Visitation

Ezra Pound: A Witness

Farewell Address

Fauna Time.
See
The Secret Life of Ford Madox Ford

Feb. 11, 1982. Last night reading Permanent War

February Air

Fern

fiction appears) for I and only one per-

Fine Mothers

Flame & Fury

Flower Portrait

Fluke Holland: —The Tennessee Third

Flying United

For a brief time Acting Chief

For Annie Rooney

For Bernie

For love of Megan I danced all night

For my sins I live in the city of New York

For Robt. Creeley