The dream of a common language Poems, 1974-1977
Book - 1978
Saved in:
- I. Power
- Power
- Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev
- Origins and History of Consciousness
- Splittings
- Hunger
- To a Poet
- Cartographies of Silence
- The Lioness
- II. Twenty-One Love Poems
- I. Wherever in this city, screens flicker
- II. I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming
- III. Since we're not young, weeks have to do time
- IV. I come home from you through the early light of spring
- V. This apartment full of books could crack open
- VI. Your small hands, precisely equal to my own
- VII. What kind of beast would turn its life into words
- VIII. I can see myself years back at Sunion
- IX. Your silence today is a pond where drowned things live
- X. Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through
- XI. Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes
- XII. Sleeping, turning in turn like planets
- XIII. The rules break like a thermometer
- XIV. It was your vision of the pilot
- (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)
- XV. If I lay on that beach with you
- XVI. Across a city from you, I'm with you
- XVII. No one's fated or doomed to love anyone
- XVIII. Rain on the West Side Highway
- XIX. Can it be growing colder when I begin
- XX. That conversation we were always on the edge
- XXI. The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones
- III. Not Somewhere Else, But Here
- Not Somewhere Else, but Here
- Upper Broadway
- Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
- Nights and Days
- Sibling Mysteries
- A Woman Dead in Her Forties
- Mother-Right
- Natural Resources
- Toward the Solstice
- Transcendental Etude