{"id":4172,"date":"2022-01-10T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=4172"},"modified":"2025-03-08T00:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:35:36","slug":"uncollected-poems-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/articles-poems-by-jim-carroll\/uncollected-poems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncollected Poems #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These seven poems by Jim Carroll were published in Big Sky<\/em> magazine, issue #9 (1975), and nowhere else — until Kevin Opstedal compiled them into the limited edition Bolinas Poems<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For John Wieners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We read life’s
style review shaking
from pacts drawn up in past
to weep for lost loves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5\/23\/74<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kitten (self pity)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I hear kitten pawing
Cheap rug above my head
The plain fact, you see,
He is one flight closer
To a moon than I becomes
A frightening idea in my mind, almost dawn
Trying to raise the body’s warmth
Tomorrow
I will never be twenty-three years old again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7\/30\/74<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dealers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ju-jus weaned on jargon of light weight siblings,
Quasi-larcenous and petite . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

acquiesce under parasols
the tudor edge
of ultra-mexicans bespecled in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

polaroid filter .
. . clandestine drop-offs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

substituting the
twigs of Thai
For the weeds of dill . . . cautious<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of dos per diem manicure,
fortified
“con gelatin”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

practitioners of
isometrics with hair
unflinching (often variegated)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

facilitated via Brylcreem,
the legacy
of ambergris often<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pearly-gated before
his time by heavy caliber,
followed with undesired undulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

among the trees of
bone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8\/74<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m Living Inside Again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

fuzzy jingles snail themselves
to a brain leave . . . munch
in cute arcs tired riffs of t.v. swamp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mutts snore under
finger tips<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a rush of familiars
climb the spine like pegged legs
up stairs of termite feasts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a few fresh dreads
introduce themselves
over handball in the belly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hands vibrate to
memories
of trapped elevators like epileptic hummingbirds . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ah yes . . .
epileptic hummingbirds . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rude insects clog
the pores in sweat sewers
from graceless anxiety of mother and church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

an old regular jams
out record feats
of front brain solos
in heavy runs of wah-wah<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hors d’oeuvres of
rich paranoia
sink the bowels to churn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this is the age where

the two mushrooms merge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

vision inside the
atom bursting
like the cells of oranges crushed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

persistent woes skate
the eyeballs’
frozen fear, that’s the sound<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of ice caving
in . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/26\/74<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Edmund Joseph Berrigan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lovely tones of mist sweep
off the channels of England
and the Irish sea ring
with the strength of a home,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from where you are
and from where
you come a heritage
of an older, more final poetry
fills the breath of a new age<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmund Joseph Berrigan
born today across the cool Atlantic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

here in America another
sea . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from this you have
grown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and so will he<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8\/6\/74<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakfast Poem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First morning air of ocean grief
down Brighton Ave. flow like solid
raft through calm river . . . Bus gunning
engine in the grey expanse garage . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this
stuttering earth . . ..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want you to hear
the flux<\/p>\n\n\n\n

inside the shell,
the hell inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the nun, the nun
inside the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

moon . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cartoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/7\/75<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wingless<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wildlife falls extinct inside tubes
burning to the touch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

moaning wings slide
down my windows
like lucite tears . . . look here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

spiders somersault
from attic ceiling
like pubic hairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rat genitals scream
across sky cathedrals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the pure logic of
massacre strokes
the corporate heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shark blood breaks
aqua tides
in rushes like flowers offered up from young hands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

horns of mountain
sheep hang from subway fans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Airconditioned blood
drips like rosaries from}
skyscraper to the cosmopolitan eye<\/p>\n\n\n\n

do bison stomp snowmobile?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

aborted calves drip
fetus flesh
across barbecues uptown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

man paints marsh
skies with lead,
wingless . . . his head between his legs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

finely clipped poodles
dreaming in penthouse
amphitheatres across mother’s molding furs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2\/8\/75<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

All poems \u00a9 1974-1975 by Jim Carroll
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATION PROHIBITED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These seven poems by Jim Carroll were published in Big Sky magazine, issue #9 (1975), and nowhere else — until Kevin Opstedal compiled them into the limited edition Bolinas Poems. For John Wieners We read life’sstyle review shakingfrom pacts drawn up in pastto weep for lost loves 5\/23\/74 Kitten (self pity) I hear kitten pawingCheap … Continue reading Uncollected Poems #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4165,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[50],"class_list":["post-4172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-15i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8785,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/limited-editions-broadsides\/bolinas-poems-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4172,"position":0},"title":"Bolinas Poems","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Get this book on Amazon Bolinas PoemsPublished:\u00a0November 2010By:\u00a0Jim CarrollPublisher:\u00a0Blue PressLength:\u00a0Cover photograph:\u00a0Mary K. 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