Cid Corman, Six Poems

The first group of three appeared in Branch Redd Review, issue #3 (1979).

The second group of three appeared in Branch Redd Review, issue #5 (1990).



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(1)

Mist
Mountains.

Mountains?

Mist?



(2)

Before the
rain and after
the rain

a broom left
in the weeded
clearing.



(3)

Driving into the
face of the mountain
opening from light
into light beyond.





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1/

All these words
and all this
money and

so many
people and
so much else

and you stop
for a breath
of poem?



2/

You said it
As if you
were only

here to have
comfirmed the
word of it.



3/

It's the pause
after the
poem and

before one
word more is
uttered where

the meaning
occurs - when
you come in.