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Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
The author of over sixty books of poetry, Robert Creeley helped to define an emerging counter-tradition to the literary establishment—a postwar poetry originating with Pound and Williams...
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by Robert Creeley
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As I was walking

I came upon
chance walking
the same road upon.

As I sat down
by chance to move
later
if and as I might,

light the wood was,
light and green,
and what I saw
before I had not seen.

It was a lady
accompanied
by goat men
leading her.

Her hair held earth.
Her eyes were dark.
A double flute
made her move.

"O love,
where are you
leading
me now?"



From Selected Poems by Robert Creeley. Copyright © 1991 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Originally published in For Love: Poems 1950-1960 (Scribner, 1962).


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April 16, 1964
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