Jack Spicer Blue Poems

  • 1.
    Your joke
    Is like a lake
    That lies there without any thought
    And sees
    ...
  • 2.
    <I>A Translation for Steve Jonas</i>

    Along East River and the Bronx
    The kids were singing, showing off their bodies
    ...
  • 3.
    Plague took us and the land from under us,
    Rose like a boil, enclosing us within.
    We waited and the blue skies writhed awhile
    Becoming black with death.
    ...
  • 4.
    A Postscript for Marianne Moore

    No one exactly knows
    Exactly how clouds look in the sky
    ...
Total 4 Blue Poems by Jack Spicer

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We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
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