Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry Book

	Preface
	The Subway	1
	Summer	1
	Venice	2
	Villa D'Este	2
	Neighbor sneaks refuse to my roof	3
	At first sight, not Pollock, Kline scared	3
	Three Posthumous Poems	4
	Afternoons in Ceylon	7
	Wondrous the Merge	8
	In Our Image, After Our Likeness	13
	Colloquy on a Bed	13
	The Wall	14
	My Shoulder for Robert. Help Us Both	14
	In April	15
	Bare	15
	What You Can Do	15
	Scanning	16
	The Near Beyond	16
	17 March	16
	Friendly Greeting	16
	Questions for Eros	17
	Duplicity	17
	Your Way Too	18
	Lucifer	18
	Anyway	19
	For My Friend, Jerry, He Drunk	19
	Circulations of the Song	20
	A Head	32
	Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum?	34
	Poem	39
	Tom	40
	A View	43
	Dietrich	45
	Garbo	45
	Callas	47
	Whatever Became of: Freud	48
	Post Masturbatum	50
	Getting to Know You	51
	from The Poetry File	52
	Chaco Canyon	57
	Even on Sunday	61
	In Remembrance of Matthew Shepard	66
	Orpheus' Song to Apollo	67
	Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes	68
	When Your Body Brushed Against Mine	68
	The Song of the Bird in the Loins	69
	Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce	69
	Love Poems	71
	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape	75
	Spincter	79
	After the Party	79
	C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease	80
	Excrement	82
	You know what I'm saying'?	84
	Multiple Identity Questionaire	84
	Things I'll Not Do	85
	Farewell Performance	87
	Naphtha	89
	Poem ('Lana Turner')	90
	Cornkind	91
	For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson	92
	They Dream Only of America	97
	Sortes Vergilianae	98
	The Ice-Cream Wars	100
	Forgotten Sex	101
	The Laughter of Dead Men	103
	The Celibate	104
	No Saints in 3 Acts	104
	Black Orpheus	105
	Afta a Bob Creeley Poem	105
	from Orgasms/Dominations: XII	106
	An Inlet of Reality, or Soul	115
	Planting the Amplitudes	116
	The Curve	117
	Blue Decrepit Town	119
	To the Boy Charioteer	121
	The Look-Out Tower at Mount Venus, Louisiana	123
	Syllables in the Form of Leaves	123
	The Chameleon	125
	Finger Exrercises	125
	The Anchorite	126
	The Distances to the Friend	127
	Dangerous Calamus Emotions	128
	The Electronic Lyre, Strung with Poets' Sinews	129
	Blue Ball Blues	130
	The Honey Lamb	131
	The Arrival of the Titanic	132
	The Death of John Berryman	132
	Plum	133
	Archaeopteryx	134
	T.S. Eliot at One Hundred and Seven	135
	Famous Friends	136
	The Problem	137
	The Dump	138
	A Wood Near Athens	140
	What Word Did the Greeks Have for It?	142
	My Last Hustler	145
	Bare Bones	147
	from On Amphetamine and In Europe	157
	Yellowknife Bay	167
	The Garbos and Dietrichs	174
	A poem for cocksuckers	174
	Act #2	175
	Two Years Later	176
	The Eagle Bar	177
	How To Cope with This?	178
	Wednesday or Something	178
	Youth	179
	Here for the Night	181
	After the Orgasm	183
	The Gay World Has Changed	183
	The Hurricaine Lamp	185
	In the Next Room	186
	A Reading of This Poem	186
	True Loves	187
	A Lecture on Avant-Garde Art	188
	A Way of Happening	189
	A Partial Index to Myself	191
	Beam 11, Finial	194
	Beam 16, The Voices	196
	Beam 17, The Book of Orpheus	199
	Beam 18	202
	August 31[superscript st] - September 5[superscript th]	203
	Pornographic Poem	204
	Hi-Risque	206
	None of Them Wanted To Go	209
	The First Time	213
	Taken to a Room	214
	Making Love to Myself	215
	The Salt Ecstasies	216
	Oshi	217
	By These Waters	218
	In the Western Night	218
	A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c.350-325 B.C.	221
	The Yoke	222
	Luggage	222
	For the Twentieth Century	223
	from I Remember	225
	Seeing All the Vermeers	234
	Ouija	241
	Love's Dial	247
	City of Men	254
	Full Circle: Postscript to 'City of Men'	260
	from Involuntary Lyrics: XVIII, LXXIII	261
	1963	263
	Leaving Ybor City	265
	When They Informed Him	267
	The Will To Live Manifests Itself	268
	After You Died	269
	Nights of 1990	270
	Desire under the Pines	276
	Summer, South Brooklyn	277
	Pretty Convincing	277
	Here Comes the Bride	280
	Ordinary Time	281
	D.O.A.	283
	Birthday	286
	Gay Pharmacy	287
	Bending In	289
	Days of'66-'73	294
	Rain	301
	Nude	302
	Words To Be Broadcast over Eagle's Nest Sound System - I	304
	Words To Be Broadcast over Eagle's Nest Sound System - II	305
	An Elizabethan Sonnet for D. W.	306
	Winged Torso of Eros	307
	Pneuma 1967	307
	Corpus	308
	Mangosteens	310
	The New World	312
	Open House	313
	Boy Wearing a Dress	314
	True Story	315
	Cemetery without Crosses	317
	Deep Red	317
	The Door into Darkness	318
	Giallo	319
	Inferno	320
	The Stendhal Syndrome	322
	Suspiria	323
	Trauma	324
	Zombie	325
	BL	326
	My Past	327
	JFK Jr. to Play Father in Film	328
	Darkens	329
	Teen Idol	330
	Some Whore	332
	Hockney Blue Pool	334
	Eighteen to Twenty-One	335
	Red Parade	338
	Of Mere Plastic	340
	Chatty Cathy Villanelle	342
	Difference	343
	Crepe de Chine	345
	Where You Are	348
	Getting Happy	352
	Goldsoboro Narrative #24: Second Benediction	353
	Goldsoboro Narrative #28	354
	A Boy Doesn't Know	355
	Crossroads	356
	Sung from a Hospice	357
	Fleur	358
	Amalgam	361
	from Erotic Collectibles: 1978	368
	from Star Vehicles: I'm Not in Darling	369
	from Star Vehicles: The Garbo Index	369
	History of Boys	371
	Poem for George Platte Lynes	374
	Elegy	379
	King of Hearts	379
	Toys	381
	Luna Moth	382
	Alba: Come	383
	Tunnel	384
	As from a Quiver of Arrows	386
	Meditation: Surrender	387
	Noli Me Tangere	389
	Sangre de Cristo	389
	The Knower of the Field	391
	The Pseudo-Homosexual	392
	Why Not Pleasure the Bigot's Body	393
	Nod	395
	Against the See-Through Plastic Curtain of the West	396
	Blood Test	400
	Your Feet	401
	In Sickness and in Health	402
	gary asleep in his recliner	404
	tall and thin and young and lovely	405
	now the mirrored rooms seem comic	406
	this is my last trick	407
	how would ed lower himself to sleep	408
	only the cruisy toilets will suffer this rascal	409
	sheet wrapped as a burnoose	410
	your torso	410
	you're thin again handsome	411
	third-world hunger strikes you	411
	you don't have syphilis	412
	cherry elixir	412
	A Plague for Kit Marlowe	413
	Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something	415
	The Beautiful	415
	Les Semblables	419
	Semantics at Four P.M.	420
	Little Hands	422
	A Poet's Education	425
	The Battle Hymn of the Republic	428
	Difficult Body	430
	Unmade Bed	431
	No Place Like Home	432
	Slutty	433
	Knowing You Could Is Better than Knowing You Will	434
	Shine	435
	Tingling in the Extremities	435
	Cocksucker's Blues	437
	Buffed Fag	440
	Lick My Butt	441
	Communion, Said the Barfly	443
	On Aesthetics	446
	Afterword	448
	Selected Bibliography	451
	Recommended Reading	454