Robert Creeley – The Coming of the Toads

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

a bit of lit crit

Word put
upon word,
drooped

Robert Creeley said,
or almost said.

What Creeley said
in his poem “The House”
was:

Mud put
upon mud,
lifted

Mud is better
than Word,
but drooped is good.

March 25, 2014March 25, 2014

Word Put Upon Word

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	“Stone	put	upon	stone
	and	chamber	beside	chamber”
		D’Arcy	Thompson

	“Mud put
	upon mud,
	lifted
	to make	room,”
		Robert	Creeley

	word						hod
			put
		upon						house
				word
shell
	soma				stone
							put
						upon
								stone


	put	log	upon	log	cube		upon	cube
pier		upon		pier	unit	upon		unit
	post		up	&	unus	put	upon	unus
road		upon		road
	page		upon	page
	wood	in			face	upon		face
paint		put	upon	paint	wall	put	upon	wall
one	part	upon		part		upon
slab		on		slab	load	put	upon	load
	hod		word		onus	upon		onus

	line	put	upon	line	word		upon	stone
				bowl	put		mud	in
hand		put	upon	hand	a	pan	upon	a
tone				drum		stone		upon
	note		upon	note		a	lifted	scuttle
	note		upon		row		in	a
sign				sing	stone	mud	call
	name	put	upon	cut	word	in
rune		put	upon	stone	bone		lifted
	end		upon	end	a	tune	in

CODA: wind upon wind wave upon wave cloud upon cloud grass upon grass leaf upon leaf sail upon sail hill upon hill cove around cove cliff upon cliff square upon square camp upon camp town upon town city upon city state upon state…wind upon wind wave upon wave cloud upon cloud cove around cove