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One day in blue-moon September,Silent under a plum tree,I held her, my silent pale lovein my arms like a fair and lovely dream.Above us in the summer skies,Was a cloud that caught my eye.It was so white and high up,and when I looked up, it was no longer there. And since that moment, […]
October 23, 2012 by intheutmostway
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into […]
October 21, 2012 by intheutmostway
‘Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it “Chops” because that was the name of his dog And that’s what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and […]
October 21, 2012 by intheutmostway
I ‘THE WIND doth blow today, my love, And a few small drops of rain; I never had but one true-love; In cold grave she was lain. II ‘I’ll do as much for my true-love As any young man may; I’ll sit and mourn all at her grave For a twelvemonth and a day.’ III […]
October 21, 2012 by intheutmostway
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. […]
October 15, 2012 by intheutmostway
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken […]
October 15, 2012 by intheutmostway
1. We two sit on our bed, you between my legs, your back to me, your head slightly bowed, that I may brush and braid your hair. My father did this for my mother, just as I do for you. One hand holds the hem of you hair, the other works the brush. Both hands […]
October 15, 2012 by intheutmostway
Chemical names, bird names, names of fire and flight and snow, baby names, paint names, delicate names like bones in the body, Rumplestiltskin names that are always changing, names that no one’s ever able to figure out. Names of spells and names of hexes, names cursed quietly under the breath, or called out loudly to […]
October 15, 2012 by intheutmostway
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If freckles were lovely, and day was night,And measles were nice and a lie warn’t a lie,Life would be delight,–But things couldn’t go rightFor in such a sad plightI wouldn’t be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence,And past was present, and false was true,There might be some senseBut…
October 15, 2012 by intheutmostway
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I. In a garden shady this holy lady With reverent cadence and subtle psalm, Like a black swan as death came on Poured forth her song in perfect calm: And by ocean’s margin this innocent virgin Constructed an organ to enlarge her prayer, And notes tremendous from her great engine Thundered out on the Roman air. Blonde Aphrodite rose…
October 15, 2012 by intheutmostway
Ethiopia 1978 what does a women do when she gives birth to a beautiful baby girl after her brother is murdered and the government demands a hundred dollars to pay for the bullets they used to bruise his body that women names that baby that would one day become my best friend mezeker because in […]
October 13, 2012 by intheutmostway
Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites go higher and higher. “It’s getting almost impossible to hear you,” said the young girl from her bedroom in Manhattan, as she squinted through a pair of her father’s binoculars, trying to find […]
October 13, 2012 by intheutmostway
Once, in my early thirties, I sawthat I was a speck of light in the greatriver of light that undulates through time. I was floating with the wholehuman family. We were all colors—those who are living now, those who have died,those who are not yet born. For a few moments I floated, completely calm,and I no […]
October 13, 2012 by intheutmostway
now does our world descend the path to nothingness (cruel now cancels kind: friends turn to enemies) therefore lament,my dream and don a doer’s doom create now is contrive; imagined,merely know (freedom:what makes a slave) therefore,my life,lie down and more by most endure all that you never were hide,poor dishonoured mind who thought yourself so […]
October 13, 2012 by intheutmostway
A man doesn’t have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn’t have seasons enough to have a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes Was wrong about that. A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment, to laugh and cry with the same eyes, with the same hands to throw stones […]
Someone Left to Speak 
October 27, 2012 by intheutmostway
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