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Pieces by Robert Creeley

Jul 3, 2008
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                    Could write of fucking--
                    rather its instant or the slow
                    longing at times of its approach--

                    how the young man desires
                    how, older, it is never known
                    but, familiar, comes to be so.

                    How your breasts, love,
                    fall in a rhythm also familiar,
                    neither tired nor so young they

                    push forward. I hate the metaphors.
                    I want you. I am still alone,
                    but want you with me.

. . .

AMERICA

America, you ode for reality!
Give back the people you took.

. . .

                    Allen's saying as we fly out of NYC--the look of the city
                    underneath us like a cellular growth, "cancer"--so that
                    senses of men on the earth as an investment of it radiates
                    a world cancer--Burrough's "law" finally quite clear.

. . .

CITIZEN

                    Write a giggly ode about
                          motherfuckers--Oedipus--
                    or Lysergic Acid--a word
                          for an experience, verb

. . .

"But now it's come to distances..."
--Leonard Cohen.

For Iris

Jan 23, 2008
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A Token

My lady
fair with
soft
arms, what

can I say to
you—words, words
as if all
worlds were there.

--Robert Creeley

from For Love by Robert Creeley

Nov 15, 2007
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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.

Ann Mikolowski

May 5, 2007
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Ann Mikolowski, “Robert Creeley” (1988).
Oil on linen. 3 1/4” x 2 3/8”. Collection Penelope Creeley.
from http://brooklynrail.org/2007/5/artseen/ann-mikolowski-two-ways-of-looking-in-a-

Ann Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror

Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan March 16 – April 28, 2007

Works on Paper
Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, Michigan March 17 – April 21, 2007

In the chilled air of early spring, Lake Huron stretches into a crystalline body with no end in sight. The second largest of the great lakes, Huron borders most of Michigan’s east coast. In Ann Mikolowski’s “Ghostrider” (1988), thin layers of oil paint split the lake’s horizon into a sweeping gray and a turbulent blue that, together, evoke Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman in their consuming passage to the sublime.