Field Talk

These poems originally appeared in the following publications, to whom acknowledgement is here made; Boston After Dark, Boston Phoenix, La Notte (Italy)

Note: The poems in this section were originally a part of the following manuscripts: Field Talk, 1957-1972; Blue Yodels

O go home, brother, go home!
The devil's back again,
amd magic Hell is swallowing flies
- Thomas Merton

Plowboy

Lullaby to a Child They Say Will Not Live Through the Night

Milksnake

The Long Staircase

The River Is Some Time To Kill Without Warning

Sanctuary

The Prows

Wrote Down Burns

The Chinese Noseguards For the Entrance of the Mouth

The Face of Love

Spell

Nautilus

A Life Taken in the Throat of the Tree Frog

Partner

I Would Have a Woman as Real as Death

On

Blue Yodel Silence You Are

When It's After Dark

Cutting Fishing Poles for the Dead

Fire Left By Travellers