Dean's poem to David Meltzer on his 21st birthday, 1957

tonight tonight, I shall lay
me down to sleep down to...
i shall find a fine bed of loving
rocks loving rocks and lay
me down to sleep..soon..and
pull up about me a warm quilt
of soil about my frozen body
quilt of soil..tonight tonight
i promise i shall..then over
me to hide me from too many
stars i shall pull a beautiful
green blanket of loving grass
loving grass..and for my pill
ow i shall have a gentle stone
gentle stone with numbers on
it 21

5630 cartwright
n. hollywood

Portrait of Dean, by Julian Schnabel, 1990

Postcard Dean created for Jack Nicholson

Neil Young's American Stars'n'Bars album cover created by Dean

Neil Young's American Stars'n'Bars album back cover created by Dean

The photograph of Wallace Berman, used on the album cover of the Sgt. Pepper's album, is taken by Dean Stockwell. (Directly above John Lennon, 2 rows up, next to Tony Curtis)