Softcover, 1967. One of 553 copies. Pajandrum Press, 1973. 66p.
Mentored by William Carlos Williams, he once called Norse “the best poet of his generation."
Excerpt
when suddenly i saw among the oil & greasy rags
& wheels & axles of a garage
the carved nude figures of
a classic frieze
there above the dismantled
parts of cars!
perfect! & how strange! garage
swallows sarcophagus!
mechanic calmly spraying
paint on a
fender
observed in turn by lapith and centaur!
flow
of unthinking flesh!
frank thighs! eyes
of aphrodite!
the myth of the mediterranean
was in that garage
where the brown wiry
youths saw nothing unusual
at their work
among dead heroes & gods
but i saw hermes in the rainbow
of the dark oil on the floor
reflected there
& the wild hair of the sybil
as her words bubbled
mad and drowned
beneath the motor’s roar
