TWENTY FOUR GNOMIC POEMS

Homer and Image

Emerged for Immersed

Fame in Retrospect

Written under German

Imagining a World

Thought and Extension

Concocting the Other

Named after Days

All Black Matches

Haunch of Plum

Orthodox in Appearance

A Coppola Short

Waiting as Dispersion

Dee's was Opaque

Good as Questionable

Even Chisels Gold

Honest Coins Refound

Absolute Zero Determined

The American Scene

Vertebra is Singular

Dreams are Helmets

Language as Vesture

Delphi in Arden

John Keats's Porridge

A Reader's Guide to Twenty Four Gnomic Poems

copyright 1984, 1985 Gerald Burns.  Twenty Four Gnomic Poems originally appeared in Temblor #3, 1986, edited by Leland Hickman.