Eating the Honey of Words电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

part I:

Seasons in the North Woods

A Home in Dark Grass

Living in the Fire

When the Dumb Speak

Where We Must Look for Help

A Dispute

Awakening

Unrest

Three Choral Stanzas

A Poem for the Drunkard President

part II:

Waiting for Night to Come

Night

Snowfall in the Afternoon

A Private Fall

Late at Night During a Visit of Friends

Old Boards

Solitude Late at Night in the Woods

Surprised by Evening

Three Kinds of Pleasures

The Call Away

After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem

Poem in Three Parts

Watering the Horse

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

Waking from Sleep

Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River

Love Poem

“Taking the Hands”

First Snowfall

After Working

A Man Writes to a Part of Himself

Depression

The Mansion

After Long Busyness

The Moon

Thinking of Tu Fu’s Poem

After Spending a Week Alone

Winter Privacy Poems at the Shack

Moses’s Basket

Passing an Orchard by Train

part III:

Confusions

Winter Afternoon in Greenwich Village

Calling to the Badger

Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway

Melancholia

Three Presidents

The Executive’s Death

Smothered by the World

Come with Me

A Pint of Whisky and Five Cigars

Those Being Eaten by America

Written in Dejection Near Rome

Max Ernst and the Tortoise’s Beak

Evolution from the Fish

Looking into a Face

A Month of Happiness

The Celtic Church

Opening an Oyster on Rue Jacob

Romans Angry About the Inner World

As the Asian War Begins

Counting Small-Boned Bodies

Hatred of Men with Black Hair

Johnson’s Cabinet Watched by Ants

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once

Hurrying Away From the Earth

part IV:

The Teeth Mother Naked at Last

part V:

November Day at McClure’s Beach

The Starfish

Driving West in 1970

Welcoming a Child in the Limantour Dunes

Climbing up Mount Vision with My Little Boy

Calm Morning at Drake’s Bay

Trespassing on the Pierce Ranch

The Dead Seal

An Octopus

The Hockey Poem

Two Sounds When We Sit by the Ocean

Sitting on Some Rocks in Shaw Cove

Looking at a Dead Wren in My Hand

A Hollow Tree

August Rain

Warning to the Reader

The Mushroom

A Chunk of Amethyst

part VI:

The Third Body

The Horses at the Tank

The Whole Moisty Night

One Morning

Winter Poem

At Midocean

Listening to the Köln Concert

Love Poem in Twos and Threes

Poem on Sleep

The Horse of Desire

Conversation with a Holy Woman Not Seen for Many Years

Two Middle-Aged Lovers

In Rainy September

The Indigo Bunting

In the Time of Peony Blossoming

The Moose

The Ram

The Eagle

The Heron Drinking

In the Month of May

A Dream of an Afternoon with a Woman I Did Not Know

Love Poem About a Spinning Wheel

The Storm

A Man and a Woman and a Blackbird

The Ant on the Board

A Love That I Have in Secret

The Red Sea

Come Live with Me

An Evening When the Full Moon Rose as the Sun Set

part VII:

Walking Swiftly

Blessings on the Body’s Inner Furnace

Wings Folding Up

Going Out to Check the Ewes

Four Adventures of the Soul

We Love This Body

Finding the Father

The Cry Going Out Over Pastures

The Owlets at Nightfall

The Lover’s Body as a Community of Protozoa

The Orchard Keeper

Blessings on the Dweller

part VIII:

Snowbanks North of the House

The Sense of Decline

Night Frogs

My Wife’s Painting

Visiting Emily Dickinson’s Grave with Robert Francis

Mourning Pablo Neruda

Fifty Men Sitting Together

The Visit to Hawaii

The Winemaker and the Captain

The Prodigal Son

Eleven O’Clock at Night

Kennedy’s Inauguration

An Anecdote About My Father

Kneeling Down to Look into a Culvert

Words Rising

part IX:

Time Runs Backward After Death

Visiting My Father

In the Funeral Home

A Week After Your Death

St. George and the Dragon

When William Stafford Died

Gratitude to Old Teachers

The Dark Egg

Drinking the Water

Thoughts in the Cabin

part X:

Why We Don’t Die

Early Morning in Your Room

Calling Your Father

The Shocks We Put Our Pitchforks Into

Conversation with the Soul

The Yellow Dot

Three-Day Fall Rain

What Jesus Said

When Threshing Time Ends

Tasting Heaven

Wallace Stevens and Florence

The Waltz

Looking at the Stars

Waking on the Farm

What the Animals Paid

For Ruth

The Man Who Didn’t Know What Was His

Thinking About Old Jobs

Conversation with a Monster

The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog

It Is So Easy to Give In

The Green Cookstove

The Russian

The Face in the Toyota

Two Ways to Write Poems

One Source of Bad Information

My Doubts on Going to Visit a New Friend

Visiting Sand Island

A Week of Poems at Bennington

All These Stories

Things to Think

The Glimpse of Something in the Oven

It’s As If Someone Else Is with Me

When My Dead Father Called

Words the Dreamer Spoke to My Father in Maine

Looking at Aging Faces

At Christmas Poem

People Like Us

The Neurons Who Watch Birds

Bad People

Wanting More Applause at a Conference

A Conversation with a Mouse

part XI:

Poem for Eudalia

Going Home with the World

An Afternoon in June

A Poem Beginning with a Line by Seal Scholars

The Dog That Pursues Us

The Day We Visited New Orleans

A Dog, a Policeman, and the Spanish Poetry Reading

Thinking of Gitanjali

The Donkey’s Ear

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Robert Bly

Copyright

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