Ron Silliman

 

Poems from «Crow»

Crow was published by Ithaca House in 1971,
with blurbs from Larry Eigner and Robert Grenier.

01

Aint nobody
can write this…

            big black fat cat
            lazes
               at the white jeep
                                         How, how
horse’s neck!
window not as clear as I’d like to think
webs on the margin
                               But summer, dad!
                               like that!

            right in the gutter the
            gray
            tennis ball

bearing fruit fruit fruit?

02

chokecherry
rain
the rain is white

Idaho roads

            raisins
            ale
            elderberry

truck plows in the rain

03

                                    no
                                    thing like a vague
                                    flower
                                    in the concrete

          birdshit, the perfect
white, the
wide path cut

          Get Killed, Go To Jail, Allude

Do I like you? No.

         sun up just barely

                        fuschia,
                        fuschia