Poems by John Berryman
Dream Song 41: If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert)
... If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert) ...
Dream Song 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do
... who could be more respected peaceful serious than that ...
Dream Song 135: I heard said 'Cats that walk by their wild lone'
... his empty father said he taught him to respect guns ...
Dream Song 9: Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstill
... At the crossways, downtown,he dreams the folks are buying parsnips & suds ...
Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld
... I'm not clear how he found itBut now he has itâmuch good may it do him ...
Dream Song 19: Here, whence
... without pleasure or interestFigurez-vous, a time swarms when the word ...
Dream Song 125: Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water
... nobody reads them though,no trumpets, no solemn instauration, no change ...
Dream Song 18: A Strut for Roethke
... & staggered on.The bluebells, pool-shallows, saluted his over-needs, ...
Dream Song 25: Henry, edged, decidedly, made up stories
... all the bight heals he tampedâ âEuphoria, ...
Dream Song 66: 'All virtues enter into this world:')
... What a week. A journalism doggy took a leakagainst absconding coon ('but take one virtue, ...
Dream Song 15: Let us suppose, valleys & such ago
... even that laid man lowbut this will be remembered & told over, ...
Dream Song 124: Behold I bring you tidings of great joy
... and pulled out not only her teeth but also his brothers' dongs & no ...
Dream Song 107: Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross
... maybe they were brothers,it seems, and is, clear to me we are brothers ...
Dream Song 37: Three around the Old Gentleman
... he couldn't hear or see wellâall we siftâ ...
Dream Song 67: I don't operate often. When I do
... Now there is further a difficulty with the light:I am obliged to perform in complete darkness ...
