Selected Poems. James Tate

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СКАЧАТЬ Autumn 158

       Poem (Language was almost impossible) 159

       In a Motel on Lake Erie 160

       A Dime Found in the Snow 161

       VII from Riven Doggeries (1979)

       Riven Doggeries 165

       Heatstroke 166

       Rooster 168

       Sloops in the Bay 169

       With a Child All Day 170

       Nature Poem: Demanding Stiff Sentences 171

       Time X 172

       The Shy One 173

       The Life of Poetry 174

       River’s Story 175

       The Responsible Romance 176

       Goodtime Jesus 177

       In the Realm of the Ignition 178

       VIII from Constant Defender (1983)

       Land of Little Sticks, 1945 181

       Poem for the Sandman 182

       Five Years Old 183

       The Horseshoe 184

       The Wild Cheese 185

       Nobody’s Business 186

       Tell Them Was Here 188

       Spring Was Begging to Be Born 189

       Mystic Moment 191

       Yonder 192

       Summer Night 194

       Nausea, Coincidence 196

       Blue Spill 197

       Yellow Newspaper and a Wooden Leg 198

       Constant Defender 199

       The Motorcyclists 200

       Memo to the Dark Angel 201

       If It Would All Please Hurry 202

       Interruptions 205

       Bluebird Houses 206

       To Fuzzy 207

       Poem to Some of My Recent Poems 209

       A Jangling Yarn 210

       Paint ’Til You Faint 211

       Tragedy’s Greatest Hits 213

       Toward Saint Looey 214

       Earthworks 216

       On the World’s Birthday 217

       IX from Reckoner (1986)

       Jo Jo’s Fireworks—Next Exit 221

       No Rest for the Gambler 222

       A Wedding 223

       The List of Famous Hats 225

       Jelka Revisited 226

       Smart and Final Iris 228

       The Chaste Stranger 229

       Ash Manor 231

       A Vagabond 232

       Neighbors 234

       The Sadness of My Neighbors 235

       Thoughts While Reading The Sand Reckoner 236

       Storm 238

       Stella Maris 239

      I

      from The Lost Pilot

      (1967)

Manna

      I do remember some things

      times when I listened and heard

      no one saying no, certain

      miraculous provisions

      of the much prayed for manna

      and once a man, it was two

      o’clock in the morning in

      Pittsburg, Kansas, I finally

      coming home from the loveliest

      drunk of them all, a train chugged,

      goddamn, struggled across a

      prairie intersection and

      a man from the caboose real-

      ly waved, honestly, and said,

      and said something like my name.

The Book of Lies

      I’d like to have a word

      with you. Could we be alone

      for a minute? I have been lying

      until now. Do you believe

      I believe myself? Do you believe

      yourself when you believe me? Lying

      is natural. Forgive me. Could we be alone

      forever? Forgive us all. The word

      is my enemy. I have never been alone;

      bribes, betrayals. I am lying

      even now. Can you believe

      that? СКАЧАТЬ