In Which We Journey Through a Few Short Poems by the Poet Robert Creeley As Arranged With Pictures of Disturbing Blonde Women Soundtracked by The Cure

The Circle

by Robert Creeley

Houses in
the ring
to pass through,
past the

accumulated
sense of them,
I know
everyone.

I am stumbling, my
feet are
awkwardly placed.

The man
who says
hello to me
is another

man, another
comes then. One
by one
the women who

look
after. In-
side the thinking.

“Just Like Heaven” — The Cure

Pieces

by Robert Creeley

I didn’t
want
to hurt you.
Don’t

stop
to think. It
hurts
to live

like this,
meat
sliced
walking.

“Friday I’m In Love” — The Cure

Change
for Ted
by Robert Creeley

Turning
one wants it all–
no
defenses.

Here

by Robert Creeley

Here is
where there
is.

“Love Will Tear Us Apart (live)” — The Cure

His first collected (of what will eventually be a three book set along with another collected prose to follow), has been around for awhile. His second collected, covering 1975-2005 came out last year. Both make tremendous gifts.