I would like to watch you sleeping… which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter

The house we built gradually from the ground up when we were yo… (three rooms, the walls raw trees) burned down last year they said

Your lungs fill & spread themselve… wings of pink blood, and your bone… empty themselves and become hollow… When you breathe in you’ll lift li… and your heart is light too & huge…

The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your ro… house, half-acre, square mile, isl… knowing at last how you got there,

The world is full of women who’d tell me I should be ashamed… if they had the chance. Quit danci… Get some self-respect and a day job.

In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your… though the real question is whether or not I will make you imm… At the moment only I

Whether he will go on singing or not, knowing what he knows of the horror of this world: He was not wandering among meadows all this time. He was down there

The rest of us watch from beyond t… as the woman moves with her jagged… into her pain as if into a slow ra… We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear

The body dies little by little the body buries itself joins itself to the loosened mind, to the black…

You, going along the path, mosquito-doped, with no moon, the… a single orange eye unable to see what is beyond the capsule of your dim

She has been condemned to death by… may escape this death by becoming… woman by marrying the hangman. But… time there is no hangman; thus the… There is only a death, indefinitel…

Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder: The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert

you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

i In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fe… the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction

Whether is it possible to become l… Whether one tree looks like anothe… Whether there is water all around the edges or not. Whether there are edges or whether