Jack Spicer Ocean Poems
- 1. A Diamond
<i>A Translation for Robert Jones</i>
A diamond
Is there
... - 2. -any Fool Can Get Into An Ocean . . .â?
Any fool can get into an ocean
But it takes a Goddess
To get out of one.
Whatâ??s true of oceans is true, of course,
... - 3. A Book Of Music
Coming at an end, the lovers
Are exhausted like two swimmers. Where
Did it end? There is no telling. No love is
Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries
... - 4. Radar
A Postscript for Marianne Moore
No one exactly knows
Exactly how clouds look in the sky
... - 5. Thing Language
This ocean, humiliating in its disguises
Tougher than anything.
No one listens to poetry. The ocean
Does not mean to be listened to. A drop
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