POETRY SERIES
TH’AUTUMNAL SEQUENCE
Individual poem titles listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess (published version)
I. Inscription for an Earthen Wine Vessel
II. "I Owe an October," He Remembers
III. Bemused Perplexity Perspicious
IV. Toward Dusk, Beside Himself, with Rattlesnake Plantains' Rosettes and Coral Roots, the Fall Inspires an Artificial Paradise
V. Dusk's Musical Notations to his Love
VI. The Darling Buds of May are Shaken Down to Burnished Smoke, O Wispy Ladies' Tresses
VII. Temenos--Lest the Heart's Mind Stay Astray Counter to Perichoresis' Inward Point
VIII. Dawn, in the year's Sunset, Midas-Fingered
IX. Autumnal Gold is All the Flesh of Love
X. Th'Incarnate Cornucopia--Horation, (Mean and Aureate) Mediocrity
XI. The Spider Web: All Rounds are Canons Yet Not All Canons Are Rounds
XII. Maples Try and Temper Autumn's Mettle
XIII. The Picnic As an Idle Idol's Idyll; The Pair Beneath the Tree, Not Apples on it
XIV. Goat-Song and the Price of Singing It--To Pay the Purple Trickster, Not the Potter
XV. Of the Value of Mood; Pierrot Makes UP for the Comedia Dell'Arte
XVI. The Synesthaesia in Color-light
XVII. Willows: Super Flumina and Syncope--Echo Systems' Etiquette Synesthetic
XVIII. Panegyrick to the Creation, Made to Resound the One Word Beyond All Ruin
XIX. Bittersweet--Beyond the Dark Path of Dreams (The Will of Etiquette; Yes, That's the Ticket)
XX. Disguise Becoming Comus--Costume Change; Not Yet Metanoia, Much Less Theosis
XXI. Another Picnic--Seminal with Lotus Seeds--Art and Life Exceed Morbid Secretion
XXII. This Leaf--a Maple Maypole Metanoia
XXIII. Sauternes May Turn Beyond the Noble Rot
XXIV. By a Still Cove, with Ladies' Tresses Strewn, Love's Shining Prints of Dew and Tears Absconding
XXV. In Adam's Fall and Other Awful Offal
XXVI. Neither More Nor Less, O Coral Roots
XXVII. Sumacs Smack of Plectum High Male Gone Lapsarian and Relapsarian
XXVIII. Narcosis' Anhedonic Scintillation--Old Cushions Filled with Sparks of Milkweed Floss
XXIX. The Insect's Miniscule; Fuga Does Not Mean Fugue in Ev'ry Tongue and Each Aesthetic
XXX. The Moon--Endymion's Brocade by Night
XXXI. Advice Lest One Should So Add Vice to Vice
XXXII. Fruit Markets--Their Own Private Iowa
XXXIII. Bees and Honey Wax Sacred and Profane That All is Art: Bible, Gregory Nyssan
XXXIV. The Wreath--Performance Art Scenario That All is Art: Naught Save Language and Culture
XXXV. The Light, and Not to Make Light of the Same
XXXVI. Jack Frost, Come Upon After the Last Post, Whose Logos Heartens Mind and Minds the Heart
XXXVII. More Advice, E'er the String of Beads Be Broken, E'er Snaps Th'Uncordial Thread of Pearly Dew
XXXVIII. In the Descretate, Abandoned Chapel
XXXIX. Indian Summer I; One for His Love Beneath Leaves' Green, Gold Leaf Gleams Summer Long
XL. Indian Summer II; Two for Himself--Beneath the Waking Mind, Our Dreams Keep Dreaming
XLI. Rusting in a Trysting Place and Trusting
XLII. Wild Geese--Of Hamartia, Their Mimesis
XLIII. Roast Duck--Receipt for When Our Goose is Cooked
XLIV. When You Are Drunk--by Showy Orchids' Stalks and Adam-and-Eve Orchids' Staid Green Leaves
XLV. Blackbirds, Robins--A Lute-song's Wing-filled Sky; An Ayre Minds the Heart of the Dark Path's Turning
XLVI. Apology: Pro-Vito Suo--That heart and Mind Must Trun, Just Like the Trees
XLVII. November, Close to Withered Cotal Roots: He and the Leaves Start to Leave the Dark Path's Turning
XLVIII. Even in November, A Little Sound Carries a Long Way to Mute Self-extinction
XLIX. The Smell of Love and Darkness of the Heart: As Heart Enraged, Aflame, May Die Out its Incensed Corps, Burned Out, May Waft Up Prayer
L. November Dawn: Their Muse's Incarnation
LI. Pheasant Season--To One Not for All Seasons
LII. Amor Vincit: Their Muse Once More Invoked Through Blue Monday's Cares Would Hew Th'Axis Mundi
LIII. Epilogue: Phoenix
TH’AUTUMNAL SEQUENCE
Individual poem titles listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess (bound alternate version, also contains artwork by John Thomas)
I. Inscription for a Wine Vessel
II. Untitled
III. Untitled
IV. Toward Dusk
V. Dusk
VI. Smoke
VII. Untitled
VIII. Dawn
IX. Gold
X. The Cornucopia
XI. The Spider Web
XII. Maples
XIII. The Picnic
XIV. Wine
XV. Of the Value of the Mood
XVI. Colors
XVII. Willows
XVIII. Panegyrick to the Creation
XIX. Bittersweet
XX. This Leaf
XXI. Sauternes
XXII. By a Still Cove
XXIII. The Fall
XXIV. Neither More Nor Less
XXV. Sumacs
XXVI. Narcosis
XXVII. The Insect's Music The Moon--For Endymion
XXVIII. Advice
XXIX. Fruit Markets
XXX. Bees and Honey
XXXI. The Wreath
XXXII. The Light
XXXIII. Jack Frost
XXXIV. More Advice
XXXV. In the Desecrated, Abandoned Chapel
XXXVI Indian Summer I
XXXVII. Indian Summer II
XXXVIII. The Tryst
XXXIX. Wild Geese
XL. Roast Duck
XLI. When You Are Drunk
XLII. November
XLIII. Even in November
XLIV. The Smell of Love
XLV. November Dawn
XLVI. Pheasant Season
XLVII. Amor Vincit
XLVIII. Epilog: Phoenix
HAWAII LYRICS
Individual poem titles listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess. (An additional published version may be found in Box 13.)
Prelude
On the Superfluity of the Hawaiian Themat
Requital
The Whole Idea
1st untitled haiku
Puka
The Naupaka Floret
The New Life
2nd untitled haiku
For All-in-All
Short untitled poem (not haiku)
A Sonnet on the Opening of a Kahua Hula Near Kilauea
‘Ili’ili
3rd untitled haiku
IN SETTLERS’ CEMETERY
Individual poems listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess.
In Settlers’ Cemetery
The Cedar Tress
A Late Easter
May Day
Gulf Clouds
Memorial Day: for the Union Dead
Iowa Pentecost
Hummingbird Present
Upon an Epitaph
Heat Lightning: High Summer
Goldfinch in Haste\
The Last Fall
Harvest Home
Elegy
In View Apart
In View of Parting [variant of “In View Apart”]
In View of Parting [composite of the fist two versions]
The Void Foundation: Winter
Box Elders’ Winter
L’Envoi
ORCHID ART AND THE ORCHID ISLE
Individual poem titles listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess (NOTE: This series may be found in book form in Box 13.)
1. Thoughts on Having Seen a Blossoming Orchid Perched Upon a Ruined Temple
2. The Lei’s Return
3. On the Orchid Isle [2 copies]
4. Stone, Orchid and Bamboo : The Artist’s Character
5. Parting at Daybreak
6. The Ground Orchid
7. Kiss of the Orchid Muse
8. The Orchid Love, Adored
9. Inscription for a Perfume Phial
10. And Not as Royal Progress, Either
11. Untitled [first line: The shadow perfume]
12. Untitled haiku
13. Untitled senryu
14. Three Leis Woven in Love’s Land
15. Untitled [first line: Resonant rains cease]
16. Concerning a Portrait of a Muse
17. ‘Awapuhi-A-Kanaloa
RUINS CONSEQUENTIAL
Individual poem titles listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess
Ruins--An Epitaph
Prelude to The Journey--Possibly a Dream
Starry Night in Chichén Itze
The Muddy Road--Kabah
Evacuated Ruins Visited
On the Jaguar--The First Great Symbol of Meso-America
Dawn at Tikal
Tikal--A Mayan Reconstruction
On Archaeology
On a Series of Temples and Palaces Superimposed One on the Other Successively
Visit to a Ruin--Kabah
On the Mayan Concept of Time’s Divinities
At Dzibilchaltun (Where the Oat-keepers Kept Roses) in the Temple of Seven Dolls
Old and New populations--Uxmal and Chichén
On Some Cactus Blossoms at Uxmal
That Purity is Not for Man, Now
To His Estranged Love, from Uxmal
Considering the Lost Works of Pre-Columbian Poets
Of His Love--In the National Museum
Cuauhtemic’s Tomb--Ixcateopan Lyric for a World’s End
On the So-Called “Iglesia” in the Classic Ruins at Chichén
Maya--Piedras Nigras
Thinking of the Happy Artifacts of Colima
Apostrophe on a feathered Serpent at Teotihucan
On the Epithets Used in Nahuatl Poetry--“Flower and Song”
A Theme Perceived in Teotihucan
On the Frescoes of Teotihucan Seen at Sunset
On Sonority Distributed
Thoughts By an Ancient Interior on the Declining Popularity of Mythic Life
On an Obsidian Mirror
On a Hummingbird Lost in a High-Ceilinged Room in the “Governor’s Palace” in Uxmal
On Seeing a Mot-Mot--A Bird Which Disfigures (and Thus Decorates) Its Already Splendid Tail with Its Beak
On Seeing a Butterfly Alighted on a Sculptures Stone Flower
On the Stairway of Hieroglyphs at Capan
On Tlarchtil, the Ball Game the Ancients Played
Aztec Artists
Thoughts on Having Seen a Blossoming Orchid Perched Upon a Ruined Temple
Eschatalogical Sonnet to the Blue Planet
On the Earth--The Statue of Xochipilli In the Museum of Archaeology, Mexico and the Cross at Acolman
Polemic on Human Sacrifice and Christ
On the Hieroglyphs on Mayan Jades
By the Great Cenote (or Sacrificial Well) at Chichén
On the Origin of Beauty--The Sculpture of the Young Corn-god From Capan
On Seeing a Flageolet in the Shape of a Man (That Strings Were Lacking in Pre-Cortesian Mexico)
Considerations on a Jaina Funerary Figurine of a Man Who is Dancing – In a Museum
On Love and the Dance - Thinking of the Ballet Folklorico
On the Continued Appearance of Music -The Bonampak Murals, For John Paul Thomas
We Asked
When Vanquished Anahuac’s Men of Faith Prayed that No Misfortune Reach Their People
Flower and Song--The Beauty of Holiness
At the Museum
Speculations of the Mayan Concept of Time’s Divinities By a Stela in Tikal
Theory on Pre-Columbian Asymmetry
On A Ceramic Sculpture of a Man (Who is also a Flageolet) in a Museum
On Zero, The Mayan Hieroglyph For Which There is a Shell
On What the Vanished Maya Left
On the Spirit of Architecture--A Maya Temple--for Don Hollenbeck
On a Ceramic, Remojadas “Smiling Head”
On the Purchase of a Remojadas Smiling Face
On the Small Clay Figure of a Seated Man Who Opens to Reveal in His Interior an Entire Pantheon--from Teotihucan
On a Little Clay Sculpture of a Man Whose Hollow Interior Contains a Pantheon, a Work, Which Might Have Come Down to Us but Uniquely if at All--In the Arahuacalli
On Personality--A Jade Mask from Teotihucan
On Seeing an Unseen Art (for Example)
Another Sonnet on the Spirit of Architecture--the Façade of the “Governor’s Palace--at Uxmal
In a ruin with Many Hieroglyphs
The Hummingbird and the Orchid
The Rose and the Orchid--On Seeing Them Both in Bloom in Mexico
On a Gift of Totanic Heads
On Restoration--Tikal, Temple 1
Paraphrase from the Poetics of the Aztec, Tenilotzen
A Vision of Flower-and-Song Inspired By Anahuac - for Jerré Tanner
On Departing from Ruins
On a cross at Alcolman (That Bears the Iconography of Anahuac)
SIX SONGS FROM A WINTER’S PILLOW BOOK
Individual poem titles listed in the order assigned to them by Mr. Hess
My unrequited [untitled – 1st line]
Late That Night, in a Blizzard
I am your winter [untitled – 1st line]
On a Gift of Flowers, Incense and Candles
On the Second Look [untitled – 1st line]
Though not dawn I see [untitled – 1st line]
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