Box 8

Scope and Contents “Baby,” “Baby,” “Bad Moon,” “Back in the City of My Birth (St. Louis, March 22, 1973),” “Bangalore,” “Because of poems,” “Bed,” “The Bells, Longview, Texas 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 1974,” “Beyond All This,” “Beyond This World There Are Twenty Other Worlds,” “Bingo!,” “Bir Zeit, Palestine,” “Birthday - for Jack Kerouac,” “Birthday," “The Blanco Cafe Burning,” “Blanket of bygones is too heavy for this season,” “Blessings on our Early Minds,” “Blood,” “Blood on All Your Shirts,” “The Body in the...

Scope and Contents “California Time, Texas Time,” “Calling You or Borders,” “Canoeing with Alligators,” “The Car Wash,” "Cat," “Catalogue Army,” “Cello,” “Changed,” “Changing My Name,” “Chiapas,” “Chula,” “Clarence,” “Clean Slate,” “Clearing the Look of Worry Off My Face,” “The Closest to a Love Poem I’m Ever Going to Get (I Bet),” “Coming Home to Myself,” “Coming to See the Marfa Lights, Marfa, Texas,” “Coming Up for Air - to M.B.,” “Companions,” “Compass,” “Concrete,” "Consider his own tall house– For...

Scope and Contents “Dallas Suburban,” “Dark,” “Darling,” “The Day,” “The Day of Randy’s Funeral,” “Days We Are Mad with One Another,” “Dead Bees,” “The Death of a Cat,” “Debris,” “Delivering Poems Books to the Housing Projects, Victoria Courts, San Antonio,” “Desert David’s Song,” "The Deserted Yard,” “Different Ways to Pray,” “Dinner Party,” “The Dirtiest 4-Letter Word,” “Disappointment,” “Disarmed,” “Donuts,” “A Door,” “Door to Door,” “The Dream Bakery Poems,” “Dressing like an Indian,” "Drive Friendly,"...

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“Easy Terms,” “Eating in Berkeley,” “The Edge of a Country,” “8 Oh Clock,” “The Endless Indian Nights,” “Enough,” “Envy,” “Escape,” “The Essential Month of July,” “Estate Sale: The Scrabble Game of a Dead Woman,” “The Esteemed Writer Never Reads Poetry (after hearing Philip Roth),” “Even the Crackers,” “The evening sky was as purple as a newly squashed grape,” “Every Cat Had a Story,” “Every War Looks Good on Paper Until You Meet the Enemy.”

Scope and Contents “Faces,” “Faces Coming Out of Carnegie Hall,” “Fair forlorn,” “Fairbanks, Alaska,” “Family Love,” “Far away up north my grandpa is dying,” “Farewell to a Robin,” “February,” “February,” “La Feria,” “Fifty Years,” “The First Poem I Ever Wrote,” “First Things Last,” “The First Time I Was Old,” “Fixing a Russian Watch,” “Flow,” “Fluency - for Anthony Villarreal,” “Foot in the Village,” “For Aziz, Who Loved Jerusalem,” “For Bob Bonazzi Who Says the Literal World Is in Order,” “For Carmon Who...

Scope and Contents “For the Gulls All Up and Down,” “For the Man at the Counter in the Steak and Egg Restaurant, 19th Street, Austin, Texas, 16 March 1975, 10:30 p.m.,” “For the Parents of Dror and Hassan / A Young Jew & Young Egyptian / Killed in Action,” “For the Poets of Dhaka,” “For years the vine grew steadily,” “4-Way Traffic,” “Four Poems of the Pink Swing,” “Free,” "French Movies," "A Friend Dies in Houston," “The Friend Who Let Me Go,” “A Friend’s Welcome,” “Friendly Postal Clerk, Saturday...

Scope and Contents “Gabriel Street,” “The Gardener,” “Gate 4-A,” “Gather Together,” “Genoveva,” “The Getting Together,” “Gifts,” “The Girl at the Swimming Pool,” “The Girl Who Did Not Treasure Words,” “Glaciers,” “A Glad Poem or Lots of Times No Whys Is Wise,” “God’s Body, Not My Body,” “Going for Peaches, Fredericksburg, 1981,” “Going On,” “Good Morning[SK1],” “Goodby,” “Goodby,” “Grandfather’s Heaven,” “Grandpa’s Coat,” “The Grapefruit,” “Grateful,” "The Great Photographer Has His Picture Taken," “Gripping...

Scope and Contents “The Hair,” “Hairdo,” “Half a Thousand Miles with You,” “Hands Touching Each Other,” “hang-ups have many drawbacks,” “Harvey Street,” “Have You Ever Had a Little Rocking Chair in Your Heart - for Kerry Crouch,” “Having Been Lonesome for the Last Six Days,” “He Has a New Plan,” “The Head That Follows My Mother,” “Hearts,” “Heirs,” “Hello,” “Hello, Palestine,” “Her Papers, After Her Death,” “Here is what I know, it is not much,” “High Hopes,” “History of Getting Older,” “Home,” “Home Again,”...

Scope and Contents “I,” “I am a hooligan,” “I Could Not Curse the Hook,” “I Feel Sorry for Jesus,” “I have no inclination to eat sweets anymore,” “I look into Virginia,” “I move inside the slow breathing,” “I need,” “I Tell Myself the Following Story,” “I was thinking of Poems,” “Ideas Do Not Go Far in the Wilderness,” “If Sadness Had a Head,” “If You Just Start Drawing You Don’t Know Where It’s Going to End Up,” “In Real Life,” “In Unison,” “Instructions Number One,” “Instructions Number Two,” “Intensive...

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“Jack Kerouac’s Will,” “January’s Clean Bright Cap,” “Jay’s Dog Naomi,” “Jefferson, Texas,” “Jerusalem,” “Jerusalem Headlines 2000,” “Jesse the Cat,” “Jesus is the King of Cuero,” “Jordan’s Blizzard,” “The Journey of Pablo Tamayo,” “July Fourth,” “July 9, 1970,” “June 26, 1995,” “Kansas (for Michael),” “Kindness,” “The King’s Highway,” “Knitting, Crocheting, Sewing….”

Scope and Contents “La Conner, Prayer,” “Labrador,” “Last August Hours before the Year 2000,” “Late,” “Late in Life He Realizes His One True Love Has Been a Broom,” “Lately all I write is Going-poems,” “Leaning Toward Mecca - for my father,” “Learning to Walk on the Hardest Floor,” “Leaving Antigua,” “Leaving the Park,” “Leaving Pittsburgh - for Samuel Hazo and Pat Truschel,” “Lena,” “The Length of Red Tape,” “Leo,” “The Letter,” “A Letter to My Mother,” “Letters,” “Letters My Prez Is Not Sending,” “Lexicon,”...

Scope and Contents “Like a spectator at a football game,” “Linked,” undated, “Little Blanco River,” “Little Boy Calling Mama,” “Little Neighborhood Things,” “The Little Pitcher,” “Live Models,” “Lives of the Women Poets,” “Living Alone Inside One’s Own Body,” “Living at the Airport,” “Living Where We Do,” “Living With Art,” “Lizard,” “Lobster Knocking on the Lid of a Pan,” “Locusts’ Lament,” “The Loneliness of Having a Baby,” “Long Distance,” “Longview County Fair,” “Long Match,” “Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga...

Scope and Contents “Mad," “Made of Wood,” “Magician,” “Magnetic Poetry Kit,” “Mail,” “Maître D’,” “Making a Fist,” “The Man Who Hated Trees,” “The Man Who Makes Brooms, Jerusalem, 1983,” “The Man Who Quoted Thoreau in the Laundromat,” “The Man Who Screamed in His House,” “The Man Who Steals Newspapers,” “The Many Hats of William Yale,” “Map,” “Margaret,” “Marilyn,” “Marriage,” “Martita y Luisa,” “Maui—In Trade,” “Max,” “Meat,” “Meditation," “Memphis – for Carmon,” “Message,” “Message in the thin wind before...

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“Mine,” “Minnows,” “Missing Me, Wish I Were Here,” “Missing the Indians,” “Morning on South Main,” “Mother of Nothing,” “My Body is a Mystery,” “My Cosmic Poem – for Craig,” “My Father and the Figtree,” “My Grandmother Has Tattooed Feet,” “My Grandmother in the Stars,” “My Little Blue Plant,” “My Neighbor at 98,” “My President Went,” “My turtle curls inside her walls,” “My Two Machines,” “Mysteries,” “The Mystery,” “The Mystery.”

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“Necessity Is Only 8 Miles Away,” “Necklace,” “Needing Basketball,” “Negotiations with a Volcano,” “The Net,” “New Skills,” “New Year's Eve was a 4 sleeping bag night,” “The News,” “Nez Perce,” “Niagara,” “Night Shift,” “Nine Years Later (remembering William Stafford),” “No Limit,” “No Souvenirs,” “No Wonder,” “Nobody’s Newspaper,” “North Carolina,” "Not Gone-For Rusty," “Not Knowing,” "Notes From the Dream Journal of a Light Sleeper."