Late at night the horses stumble Around the camp and I awake. I lie on my elbow watching Your beautiful sleeping face Like a jewel in the moonlight. If you are lucky and the Nations let you, you will live Far into the twenty-first Century. I pick up the glass And watch the Great Nebula Of Andromeda swim like A phosphorescent amoeba Slowly around the Pole. Far Away in distant cities Fat-hearted men are planning To murder you while you sleep.
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In the star-filled dark we cook Our macaroni and eat By lantern light. Stars cluster Around our table like fireflies.
Permalink to quote #9 What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
Permalink to quote #11 Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird…
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