In moonlight the landscape was all blue: frit of cobalt, french ultramarine, far off hills of phthalocyanine and that gleam of light on lake water cerulean, shore rocks indigo, fugitive soldiers freezing to death on a Prussian ground, when my beloved turned on me his eyes of blue mercy: lapis lazuli, pupils of gold.
i. Ill …we are all ill, i.e., neurotic… —Sigmund Freud All ill, some very, some not so much or not so evidently—though perhaps for that all the more ill. Overall I’d say I was ill, but not quite ill all over as there’s still some small patch of well, a window sill of the psyche…
I avoid books about the present or last war, The war has never been. The air Is thinning itself for the breakup of winter. Breadths of breeze requiring sun Slice through any and every complaint To a dark kind of summer. Moon scuffed at its edges, brighter, Narrower, smears its self-improvement mirror- Image of giveaway…
for J.G. I am powerless to change a thing. But Let me fool you, sweetly, with my pen Or better still, my fingers, and if not With my fingers, then my tongue— Wherever you feel yourself turned To wood, wherever a joint is thick Pinned into a pleat or crook, trapping You in twists…
Into the mute and blue- green marble mailbox my dust deserves to go though not for that which I’m going. I deserve to go, and not alone, because I did not sing loud enough about this life, this world. Singing poorly is acceptable. Not loud enough is not. There were too many things I saw…
The war that so many would like to forget, and so many others refuse to remember. Thank you for the relief, the rest, for leaving only palimpsest and a little rolled orange eraser dust, and not the xxxxx of a stitched-up wound, when you came to do what erasers do. The way you rubbed…
Plaintive 1 They asked me, “what do you think of the smell of money, the smell of a woman and the smell of the sea?” I held firm. Night wavered and people were singing. The smell of the sea I know, I said, but I am not an informer. The smell of a woman is…
for Bob Kennedy Thank you for the trilobite, Its four hundred million years (Approximately) parceled With tissue paper and two Elastic bands, carefully. Set free by your hammer blow From the muddy blackness Of deep Ordovician seas, It finds its way in sunlight To Carrigskeewaun, eyeless At the fireside among bleached Bones and raven…
Translated from the Albanian by Ani Gjika Here, everyone smokes. In the evening each wife recognizes her husband by the faraway glint of his cigarette at the end of the cobblestone street. When the glint pulses frequently wives feel the storm coming and rush to warm dinner in the fire. But when it’s…
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