Bill Knott Long Poems

  • 1.
    Hair is heaven's water flowing eerily over us
    Often a woman drifts off down her long hair and is lost


    ...
  • 2.
    If a path to the Gingerbread House
    could be established by breaking crumbs
    off its edifice and sprinkling them
    so as to find what lies behind us
    ...
  • 3.
    One day we notice that the sun
    needs feeding. Immediately
    a crash program begins: we fill rockets
    with wheat, smoke-rings, razorblades, then,
    ...
  • 4.
    I'm tired of murdering children.
    Once, long ago today, they wanted to live;
    now I feel Vietnam the place
    where rigor mortis is beginning to set-in upon me.
    ...
  • 5.
    Satiety help me I have inhabit
    of this world. Extant upon its designs
    to be more aimlessly fluttering at
    the window, to shadow all the patterns
    ...
Total 5 Long Poems by Bill Knott

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