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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
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POEM NOT TO BE SPOKEN
The unity of the Fatherland.
The honour of the nation.
Law.
Purity.
The soul.
Everywhere, always, the lies.
Be careful.
The lies that you spit with clenched teeth
And must speak
Build prisons and break bones.
—And do you suppose
To stuff nothingness in your mouth
And not become empty as these?
Say nothing.
Mouth nothing.
Let silence topple their walls.
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