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- THE HEART OF LOTHIAN
- BEETHOVEN’S HAT
- POEM NOT TO BE SPOKEN
- IN PRINCIPIO
- VOCABULARY FOR A HERO…
- AUSCHWITZ
- SUMMER SNOW
- AFTER BERKELEY
- DURHAM
- MARINA TSVETAEVA
- TWO DEATHS
- AT AVEBURY
- INCIDENT OFF ICELAND
- THE DREAM
- LULLABY
- LAUGHTER
- THE HEART’S UNDESIGN
- UNLEARNED
- BITTERNESS
- ROSE BRIAR
- EPITAPH
- INTERCESSION IN LATE…
- NORTH CHINA, 1207 A.D.
- THE ISLAND
- AN ORKNEY CALENDAR
- CRANE TOWER
- MOONRISE
- RIMBAUD
- HARDY
- METAPHOR
- WARP AND WEFT
- ARTIST AND MODEL
- TUTORIAL ON BEING…
- EMILY DICKINSON
- THE LAST ANECDOTE
- THIRD HYPOTHESIS ON THE…
- ALEXANDRIA, 31 BC
- HIROSHIMA
- HERMITAGE WOOD
- THE HILL POOL
- TO POSTERITY
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SUMMER SNOW
At mid-day, suddenly, in summer
Within the air flake drifting upon flake.
To build such darkness out of air,
Such snow, and its breathed nothingness.
At noon the sun itself an emptiness.
Ash everywhere. In the ash tufts of hair,
Upon the skin a film, a bitterness
And smell that nothing rubs away.
Not snow, and its pure nothingness,
But in the air a sweat of oil and soot.
In each flake all we know and are,
The nothingness of all we build.
Each flake that is still, too, of God,
Upon the skin, upon the mouth, the tongue.
Listen. The twelfth hour of the world.
Look. Taste. And do not look away.
Poems in Order
- THE HEART OF LOTHIAN
- BEETHOVEN’S HAT
- POEM NOT TO BE SPOKEN
- IN PRINCIPIO
- VOCABULARY FOR A HERO…
- AUSCHWITZ
- SUMMER SNOW
- AFTER BERKELEY
- DURHAM
- MARINA TSVETAEVA
- TWO DEATHS
- AT AVEBURY
- INCIDENT OFF ICELAND
- THE DREAM
- LULLABY
- LAUGHTER
- THE HEART’S UNDESIGN
- UNLEARNED
- BITTERNESS
- ROSE BRIAR
- EPITAPH
- INTERCESSION IN LATE…
- NORTH CHINA, 1207 A.D.
- THE ISLAND
- AN ORKNEY CALENDAR
- CRANE TOWER
- MOONRISE
- RIMBAUD
- HARDY
- METAPHOR
- WARP AND WEFT
- ARTIST AND MODEL
- TUTORIAL ON BEING…
- EMILY DICKINSON
- THE LAST ANECDOTE
- THIRD HYPOTHESIS ON THE…
- ALEXANDRIA, 31 BC
- HIROSHIMA
- HERMITAGE WOOD
- THE HILL POOL
- TO POSTERITY