Poems by R.P. Dickey

           selected by M.L. Weber

TO THE READER
A HUG FOR THE BOSS OF AMERICAN POETRY
T HE OLD MAN AT SHUFFLEBOARD
THE CAVES
THE OLD FIELD
GYPSIES
THE MAPLES
NICKNAMES
WILLIE CALVERT
AT THE GRAVE OF D.H. LAWRENCE
ELEGY
SWEET CIDER
SIR FRANCIS BACON
ROUGH CUT
RUNNING LUCKY
YEAH
“There are ways but the Way is Reason. . .”
“You can step into the same river. . .” 
“If you can get past your imaginary inability. . .”
“If there is an Afterlife. . .”
“The Way is like a road with signs. . .”
FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ
MOON POEM
ONE MAN IN PUEBLO
ON THE DEATH OF AUGUST MATTHEWS AT FORTY-SIX
READING
SANTO DOMINGO CORN DANCE
HOMAGE TO JOHN NEIHARDT
WHICH SEEMS TO LIE BEFORE US
A LETTER TO E.D.
NARCISSUS: A HORROR POEM
VATES ET SOCIETAS
AH SO
NAOMI VALENTINE JACKSON DICKEY
THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS
EDDIE PASSION
DRUNK ON A GREYHOUND
DELNO MIREN DICKEY (1909-1982), R.I.P.
DEAD PEOPLE
CONFESSION
THE DAY AFTER ELVIS DIED
DAY OF THE TWO EAGLES
BUCKING HAY