Solar (Philip Larkin Poem)
Suspended lion face Spilling at the centre Of an unfurnished sky How still you stand, And how unaided Single stalkless ...
Suspended lion face Spilling at the centre Of an unfurnished sky How still you stand, And how unaided Single stalkless ...
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for ...
Standing on the schoolhouse grounds waiting for the bus to come the batter and pushing of the teens and those ...
random connection to long forgotten facts scraps of thoughts deep within my consciousness triggered by a word, a conversation, music, ...
Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone. --Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi Outside everything ...
In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets ...
When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino ...
call it the greenhouse effect or whatever but it just doesn't rain like it used to. I particularly remember the ...
WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow ...
At ten she came to me, three years ago, There was 'something between us' even then; Watching her write like ...
I've been going right on, page by page, since we last kissed, two long dolls in a cage, two hunger-mongers ...
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), astronomer, sister of William; and others. A woman in the shape of a monster a ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
"Hill of Jews," says one, named for a cemetery long gone."Hill of Jove," says another, and maybe Jove stalked here ...
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