What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months
on six lines of poetry?

Lorine Niedecker


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Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt?
But if transport's the problem -
they tell me get a job and earn yourself
an automobile-I'd rather collect my parts
as I go: chair, desk, house
and crankshaft Shakespeare.
Generator boy, Paul, love is carried
if it's held.

Lorine Niedecker

Tag: for-paul-and-other-poems



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I was the solitary plover
a pencil
for a wing-bone
From the secret notes
I must tilt

upon the pressure
execute and adjust
In us sea-air rhythm
"We live by the urgent wave
of the verse

Lorine Niedecker

Tag: poetry



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I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.

Lorine Niedecker

Tag: sweet green algae marsh mud niedecker willows



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Poet's Work"

Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade

I learned
to sit at desk
and condense

No layoffs
from this
condensery

Lorine Niedecker


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In the great snowfall before the bomb"

In the great snowfall before the bomb
colored yule tree lights
windows, the only glow for contemplation
along this road

I worked the print shop
right down among em
the folk from whom all poetry flows
and dreadfully much else.

I was Blondie
I carried my bundles of hog feeder price lists
down by Larry the Lug,
I'd never get anywhere
because I'd never had suction,
pull, you know, favor, drag,
well-oiled protection.

I heard their rehashed radio barbs—
more barbarous among hirelings
as higher-ups grow more corrupt.
But what vitality! The women hold jobs—
clean house, cook, raise children, bowl
and go to church.

What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months on six lines
of poetry?

Lorine Niedecker


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