Jack Spicer Water Poems
- 1. -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,
... - 2. Concord Hymn
Your joke
Is like a lake
That lies there without any thought
And sees
... - 3. For Mac
A dead starfish on a beach
He has five branches
Representing the five senses
Representing the jokes we did not tell each other
... - 4. One Night Stand
Listen, you silk-hearted bastard,
I said in the bar last night,
You wear those dream clothes
Like a swan out of water.
... - 5. Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
What are you thinking about?
I am thinking of an early summer.
I am thinking of wet hills in the rain
... - 6. Radar
A Postscript for Marianne Moore
No one exactly knows
Exactly how clouds look in the sky
... - 7. 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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