"The Pier" Manuscripts

Pier1

1) "29.  iii. 76. Are one by one hauled." Ink, pencil.

Pier2

2) "Hauled kisswise--no--!" Pencil, ink. Passages from Mirabell sketches taped on.

Pier3

3) "Are one by one hauled kisswise o!" Ink, pencil.

Pier4

4) "never-outgrown revulsion." "Reverence for life?" "Another poem about fish--why?" Ink, pencil.

Pier5

5) "The Pier." "The shallows wetter." Pencil.

Pier6

6) "DAYTONA DOCK." "Another poem about fish?" Pencil, ink, one sketch.

Pier7

7) "[Datona DOCK]" "The shallows wetter." Pencil.

Pier7Verso

7 Verso) "Cutting right through tabloid." Pencil, ink.

Pier8

8) "The sea is wetter." Pen, ink.

Pier8Verso

8 Verso) "Who are hooked and hoisted." Pencil, ink. One sketch.

Pier9

9) "The sea is wetter." Pencil. One sketch.

Pier9Verso

9 Verso) "Time was." Pencil.

Pier10

10) "The shallows wetter." Pencil, ink.

Pier11

11) "The shallows wetter." Ink.

Pier12Verso

12) "In gobbets none / Eschews as minced kin." Pencil. One sketch.

Pier12

12 Verso) "Beyond the pale of justice. 6. 1. 73."

Pier13

13) "The shallows wetter." Ink, pencil. 

Pier13Verso

13 Verso) "Under the same starlight." Pencil, ink, one sketch.

Pier14

14) "<Sarasota Dock  The Dock> The shallows, wetter." "water bed. a 3rd person walks the pier after dark. the scales are invisible" Ink, pencil. Two sketches.

Pier15

15) "The shallows, wetter." "SARASOTA  HOBE SOUND  TAMPA  TALAHASSEE  DAYTONA DOCK." Pencil.

Pier15Verso

15 Verso) "Why do I keep writing about fish?" Pencil.

Pier16

16) "<In gobbets none> Eschews as minced kin. 6. 1. 73." Pencil, ink. 

Pier16Verso

16 Verso) "Cutting through <any night's> tonight tabloid." Pencil.

Pier17

17) "Later in adolescence, people." Ink.

Pier17Verso

17 Verso) "self sufficient  respecting< reliant self possessed indulgent<." Ink.

Pier18

18) "THE PIER: UNDER PISCES." 

Pier18Verso

18 Verso) "THE PIER: UNDER PISCES. Naked we lie in black night." Pencil. Unidentified poem.

Pier19

19) "Till, from the upwardness of midnight spark." Draft of "Scripts for the Pageant."

Pier19Verso

19 Verso) "The Farm. The legacy. A windfall." Pencil. Perhaps a draft of Part 3 ("Future Apples") of "Peter." 

Pier20

20) "The Pier: Under Pisces." Pencil.

Pier20Verso

20 Verso) "But left the fish untasted on its plate." Pencil.

Pier21

21) "Rove the great sharkskin-suited criminals." 

Pier22

22) "THE PIER: UNDER PISCES." Pencil.

Pier23

23) "Rove the great sharkskined-suited criminals." Ink.

Pier24

24) "THE PIER: UNDER PISCES." 

Pier25

25) "Rove the great sharkskined-suited criminals."

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