from Private Poem to Norman Macleod - by
The spaces in the poem are yours.They are the place where youCan enter as yourself aloneAnd think anything in.
The spaces in the poem are yours.They are the place where youCan enter as yourself aloneAnd think anything in.
slow down long enough to read these words
What is poetry for? (Maitreyabhandu)
/
/ It’s for weddings
/ and funerals
/ and reading on the train
/ and for taking a person out of herself
/ and bringing…
Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…
Never written a poem for yourself
/ have you, you daft old bugger? Well
/ here goes.
/
/ …
for Robyn Marsack
/
/ Go take a book down from the shelf and open it.
/ Listen, this isn’t ‘book’ but box,
/ box full…
so much light here –
sun’s rhythm in each wall…
flow of thoughts on the shelves,
radiant lamp of the books
No piece of art is perfect. / All it has to do is stay around / for two hundred, or…
New doctors will be empowered by poems
/ in the pockets of their metaphorical white coats.
/ There at the ready:
/ on early, sweaty,…
Donijeti odluku znači zatvoriti knjigu koja
/ je ponešena na put. U sjedištima aviona i
/ vozova, čovjek se mora, ohrabren tišinom,
/ okrenuti sebi:…
The sin is that I wasn’t a stone
/ And the troubles of the world make me…
Brooke, R., 1914 & Other Poems (Complete Press,
/ 28th impression, 1920). Restrained, a story of memory,
/ navy-bound with a firmament of stains,…
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