Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Layover

Poem written circa 1956

Making love in the sun, in the morning sun
in a hotel room
above the alley
where poor men poke for bottles...

Books

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard - pg. 22 - 1965
A Bukowski Sampler - pg. 50 - 1969
The Roominghouse Madrigals - pg. 51 - 1988
Run With the Hunted - 1993
On Love - pg. 2 - 2016
Essential Bukowski: Poetry - pg. 3 - 2016

Magazines and periodicals

Naked Ear - No. 9 - 1956
Second Coming - Vol. 2 - No. 3 - 1973

Alternate titles or versions, draft titles

Lay Over