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    • 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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METAPHOR

 

You ask why I choose metaphor.
A tree uprooted by the flood,
All wrong, yet right since where it stood
This stands, a stepping stone in air.

 

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  • 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
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