The Story As I See It - by
If I say, my arms cast out in this southern exposure,
/ this is all we have for making: sudden grace…
If I say, my arms cast out in this southern exposure,
/ this is all we have for making: sudden grace…
O Rose, thou art sick!
/ The invisible worm
/ That flies in the night,
/ In the howling storm,
/
/ Has found out…
From my study window
/ I see you
/ below in the garden, a hand
/ …
Somehow I wish I could say
/ it was indifference not love
/ that found the co-ordinates
/ for cormorants among the blue
/ the blue-white gulls
/
/ tell you…
According to the latest classification, Kurds
/ now belong to a species of bird
/ which is why, across the torn, yellowing…
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