As Ever: Selected Poems Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	The Maze	1
	Tapestry	5
	The Dance	7
	Tapestry	8
	"Somewhere you can find reference"	9
	12.29 & 30 (Pan as the son of Penelope)	10
	"A song in the rope"	12
	"Waiting again"	13
	"They are constructing a craft"	14
	"It is lonely"	15
	Caption for a miniature	16
	My Sister Evelyne	17
	Tapestry	19
	Burning the Baby to make him realer	20
	Iliad: Achilles does not die	21
	"Fragmented. ie several valleys"	22
	"Look the bird is making plans"	24
	The Hunt in the Wood: Paolo Uccello	25
	"My father died this spring"	26
	Those things we see are images of the past	27
	"The persimmons are falling"	28
	Waiting	30
	The Odyssey Poems	31
	The Pigs for Circe in May	41
	"She comes up"	44
	"I didn't want to think"	45
	From The Imaginary Apparitions	46
	Places to Go I-IV & Here	50
	"Dear, Dearest"	57
	A Novel	58
	May 29	67
	July 21, Weedy	68
	The Tree in the Fire	69
	Descartes and the Splendor Of	70
	"From this moment"	75
	Lord Ganesha	76
	Tuesday, October 28, 1969. Bolinas	78
	October 28, Take It Easier	79
	October 29, Wednesday	80
	October 31	81
	November 12	82
	Thursday, 13 November	83
	Monday, November 17	84
	Back in Time	85
	"Never talk ahead"	85
	"I walked home & had some soup"	85
	"This is a Short Story"	86
	Joanne	87
	"Still"	103
	Not Yet	105
	"It's been a long time"	106
	News bulletin from Keith Lampe	107
	Desecheo Notebook	108
	"The rain"	130
	"Bird family"	130
	"This is the way I like to feel the best"	131
	"I want to point out that I am not up tight"	131
	"Often I try so hard with stimulants"	132
	"Utmost Disarray"	132
	"No one was watching the tortillas"	133
	"I want a smaller thing in mind"	134
	"Oft have I wondered and climbed"	135
	Trip Out and Fall Back	136
	"A small field of tall golden headed grass"	145
	September	146
	"O fresh day in February"	147
	"Every day I burn a stick of incense"	148
	"When I used to focus"	150
	"This is the first time"	151
	"I don't believe in any"	152
	"The far off pine"	153
	"When I was well into being savored"	154
	"When I step through the door"	155
	"In my imaginary conversation"	156
	"I thought I would never get out here again"	157
	"It is true"	158
	"Looking out to the garden fair"	159
	"It's a great day"	160
	"Wooden walls"	161
	"Of all things for you to go away"	162
	"The apple tree"	163
	"Chill waves"	163
	"Throwing a crank"	164
	"Is this the Buddha?"	165
	"I don't want to repeat"	166
	"April 4, 1975 Time of wonder"	167
	The Brain Impressed in Its Oddities	168
	"I'm going to be a poet"	168
	Morning Mess	169
	"Bright, sparkling"	170
	Saturday Full Moon September	171
	"I'd like to magic you on this grand occasion"	172
	"There are so many letters I would like to write"	174
	"I am afraid"	175
	Silver City Overlay	176
	Up My Coast	177
	The Crystal in Tamalpais	181
	Destruction	182
	Visit to Maya Land	183
	The Wonderful Focus of You	194
	And with March a Decade in Bolinas	208
	"You believe this stash of writing is 'scholarly'?"	209
	"A few days later at the washtub"	210
	The Depressed Ennui before 11 A.M.	211
	"Stripes of red, black, and gold"	212
	"Not much time left"	213
	My how the days fly by in Life Time	214
	Haiku for Charles Berrard on his 40th Birthday	215
	"In my dream last night Deer Lady"	216
	"Yesterday when Diana drops me off on Evergreen"	217
	"The Karmapa spoke to me from a center of light"	218
	Good Manners	219
	"Morning is such a welcome time. It doesn't demand"	220
	"Dinner at Briarcomb, that Artists' posh retreat"	221
	Thanksgiving	222
	December 25	223
	Philip Whalen's Hat	224
	Day after Ted Berrigan's Memorial Reading	225
	January 12, 1984	226
	June 26	226
	Monday Afternoon May 14, 1984	227
	"Giverny I am for Gee Verr Nee"	228
	Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot Review	229
	Fall Equinox	229
	From Phenomenological	230
	"Self Loathing & Self Pity"	234
	"Tuesday May 7"	235
	Love Boat	236
	Yuppy Wittgensteins Arise!	238
	Miwok Mandarin Bolinas Bamboo	239
	"Ah it's socked in today boys heavy metal"	240
	"You know when you write poetry you find"	241
	"Oh Man is the highest type of animal existing"	242
	"Anything that is created"	244
	"Darrel Gray dies when I am in Mexico"	246
	Tuesday October 27, '87	247
	From the Jataka Tales	248
	Take It O Moon on the run	249
	Narcissus	250
	Saturday February 4	251
	February 7 Tuesday	252
	February 17 Friday	252
	Death Valley Desert Notes	253
	Incense for the Buddha	255
	"The sun is about to pass"	256
	"Haven't I seen you"	257
	"Cold"	257
	In Memoriam	258
	From the Life of Naropa	259
	"It certainly was divine running into you"	260
	Friday Night	261
	A Story from Easter: He Has Risen	262
	Ocean Parkway Gazing	263
	"Specially For Your Eyes"	265
	Adonis Is Older Than Jesus	266
	"Again recognizing"	269
	"How Does one attain that popular narrative"	270
	Town Hall Reading with Beat Poets	271
	Watching TV	272
	Terrace Roads slumps into the Canyon	273
	I Blinked My Eyes, Looked Up and Everyone Was 25 Years Older	274
	"Replacement Buddhas"	275
	Wake Up	276
	View North	277
	Bob Marley Night Saturday Downtown	278
	"So, well, now"	279
	Snapshot for Lew Welch 25 Years Later	280
	"Dear dear little wrentit"	282
	"You?"	283
	Wide Mind	284
	Arthur Okamura's Pipul Tree's Bodhi Leaf	285
	First Nation	286
	"I thought, I'll make it so simple"	287
	Grateful	288
	Stupidly Inspired	289
	For the Pittosporum Tenuifolium Outside the Studio Window	290
	It's So	291
	Naropa approaches his teacher Instruction time again	292
	Try	293
	"The 'English' sparrows in the courtyard don't know"	294
	"What you really don't want is some"	295
	Your Heart Is Fine	296
	To Live in This World Again	297
	I Can't Help It	298
	"Whatever It Takes"	299
	The Dharani	301
	Forever and a While	302
	The Fog is halfway over the mesa	303
	Bibliography	305