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
- To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Over The Roofs by Sara Teasdale
- They Would Love To See Me Dead by Mahmoud Darwish
- Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
- Patience by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain by William Shakespeare
- Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel
- Шекспир – Я не хочу хвалить любовь мою – Сонет 21
- O mother, O Merry by Nikunj Sharma
- Яков Полонский – На искусе
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
- The Heart’s House by Sara Teasdale
- An Imitation of Spenser by William Blake
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).
