• light breaks where no sun shines
  • out of the sighs
  • a grief ago
  • find meat on bones
  • grief thief of time
  • we lying by seasand
  • after the funeral
  • once it was the color of saying
  • the tombstone told when she died
  • the conversation of prayers
  • poem in october
  • this side of truth
  • love in the asylum
  • the hunchback in the park
  • into her head lying down
  • in my craft or sullen art
  • once below a time
  • in the torrent salmon sun
  • in my seashaken house
  • out of these seathumbed leaves
  • sucked sun lips
  • and the dumb swans drub blue
  • who moons her blue notes from her nest
  • hullabalooing
  • i see the boys of summer in their ruin(...) i see the summer children in their mothers(...) i see that from these boys shall men of nothing
  • as sunlight paints the shelling of their heads (helmets)
  • i see the pulse of summer in the ice
  • the man of straw
  • cataracted eyes
  • drives in a death as life leaks out
  • my throat knew thirst before the structure
  • where words & water make a mixture
  • my heart knew love, my belly hunger
  • beach of flesh
  • from this box of nerves
  • (from the introduction) "...but if i went on revising everything that i now do not like in this book, i should be so busy that i would have no time to write new poems..."
jan 10 2020 ∞
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