Larry Levis Grass Poems

  • 1.
    The brow of a horse in that moment when
    The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough
    It seems to inhale the water, is holy.

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  • 2.
    One was a bay cowhorse from Piedra & the other was a washed out palomino
    And both stood at the rail of the corral & both went on aging
    In each effortless tail swish, the flies rising, then congregating again

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  • 3.
    Some called it the Summer of Love, & although the clustered,
    Motionless leaves that overhung the streets looked the same
    As ever, the same as they did every summer, in 1967,
    Anybody with three dollars could have a vision.
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  • 4.
    --The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968
    --for my brother

    Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill.
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  • 5.
    At Wilshire & Santa Monica I saw an opossum
    Trying to cross the street. It was late, the street
    Was brightly lit, the opossum would take
    A few steps forward, then back away from the breath
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  • 6.
    The trees went up the hill
    And over it.
    Then the dry grasses of the pasture were
    Only a kind of blonde light
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  • 7.
    There are places where the eye can starve,
    But not here. Here, for example, is
    The Piazza Navona, & here is his narrow room
    Overlooking the Steps & the crowds of sunbathing
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Total 7 Grass Poems by Larry Levis

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
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