When the door of the next truck is open
it reads toward the cab
—Z E N T A B L E S, the black dog
leaps on the man in pure
friendliness—he only wants to leave. .
8 seats to a table
except one side of one table, only 3
the cigarette machine sits
makes its change
6 tables then
seating 47 deathsheads, the luncheon hour . Packed , a man
with a 100 lb. sack of cement walks past . The Modern World e-
merges
/
124 Warren Street, sayeth the truckside
—Z E N T A B L E S—
The truck door closes
Driver climbs in : ,
The truck departs .
The hot cat
heads toward the door tail up, the black dog barks, the first of the
7 white dogs I .
meet on this mountain
greets me
‘mid a rain of pebbles & dirt .
“—and the an-gels sing,
& leave
their singing
ringing in
my
ears .”
[1963/1965]
Copyright ©: Paul Blackburn
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Elusive Lover by Renu Ayyar
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Омар Хайям – До того, как мы чашу судьбы изопьем
- Кондратий Рылеев – Князю Смоленскому
- Epigram on Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- I am a sculptor, a molder of form by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Валерий Брюсов – Дворец любви
- Илона Грошева – Мой друг Евгений
- Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча
- La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
- A Promise to California. by Walt Whitman
- Eclogue:–Two Farms In Woone by William Barnes
- The Years by Sara Teasdale
- Hepatica by Satish Verma
- Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
