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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer,
edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian

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Color Blossoms and Comeling Birds

Color Blossoms and Comeling Birds

The Lie of the World

The Lie of the World

My Vocabulary Did this to Me

My Vocabulary Did this to Me

Every word was once a poem

Every word was once a poem

Pouring grape in orange

Pouring grape in orange

Oh, Autumn! Autumn!

Oh, Autumn! Autumn!

Nobody, not even the rain

Nobody, not even the rain

Long live the rose

Long live the rose

I felt a cleaving in my mind

I felt a cleaving in my mind

Hot lump of a machine

Hot lump of a machine

Each tube neatly sliced in half

Each tube neatly sliced in half

Circles of Motion

Circles of Motion

Better a diamond with a flaw

Better a diamond with a flaw

Because no two snowflakes are alike

Because no two snowflakes are alike

Backed by continent

Backed by continent

A certain slant of light

A certain slant of light

CONTACT SCOTT

Address all correspondence to

scott@scottbentley.org

Professor Scott Bentley
College of Arts, Letters & Social Sciences
Department of English
California State University East Bay
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94542-3037

BW-Portrait-200

If you know his number by heart
it's already too late, she said,

in sharkskin with a haircut
that they were undoing...

from "Heat Lightning"

OUT OF HAND
(Parentheses, 1989)