Robert Creeley
(1926-2005)


The Warning
 
For love – I would
split open your head and put
a candle in
behind the eyes.
 
Love is dead in us
if we forget
the virtues of an amulet
and quick surprise.



Info:

Creeley web site – at the University at Buffalo
Creeley – at the Modern American Poetry web site
Short Creeley biography – at Keele University


Poems/Writings:

Ballad of the Despairing Husband
Drawn & Quartered (with Archie Rand)
Five Poems
Four Days in Vermont
Four Poems
The Language
Nothing new
Old Story
Still Life Or
The World



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