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Because she wants to touch him, she moves away. Because she wants to talk to him, she keeps silent. Because she wants to kiss him,
Black ship of night sailing through the world & the moon an orange slice tangy to the teeth of lovers who lie
After the first astounding rush, after the weeks at the lake, the crystal, the clouds, the water… the snow breaking under our boots… & the long mornings in bed. .…
She was not a slender woman, but her skin was milk mixed in with strawberry jam & between her legs the word pu… & her hair was the color of wh…
All the boring tedious young men with dead eyes & dirty hair .… all the mad young men who hate the… all the squalling baby boys . . . have grown up
After the college reading, the eager students gather. They ask me
Knowing our lives a drowse towards death (attended by dogs & children) how can it not matter
Rising in the morning like warm bread, from a bed in America, the aroma
In the chest is caged bat who seeks escape through the mouth. He flaps his wings & the molars shiver.
I mourn a dead friend, like myself… —Pablo Neruda about César Vallej… I looked at the book. ‘It will stand,’ I thought. Not a palace
The lessons we learned here (fumbling with our lunchbags, handkerchiefs & secret cheeks of bubblegum) were graver than any
I pass to the other side of the pa… —Pablo Neruda On the other side of the page where the last days go, where the lost poems go,
Living in a house near the Black Forest, without any clocks, she’s begun to listen to the walls.
On the first night of the full moon, the primeval sack of ocean broke, & I gave birth to you
You operate on the afternoon You perform open heart surgery on the ghosts of your suicidal friends You divorce your parents