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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 water turns a long way down over the raw stone… ice crusts around it We walk separately along the hill to the open

More and more frequently the edges of me dissolve and I become a wish to assimilate the world, in… you, if possible through the skin like a cool plant’s tricks with ox…

When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my… but you always miss and when you set out the poison

In the secular night you wander ar… alone in your house. It’s two-thir… Everyone has deserted you, or this is your story; you remember it from being sixteen…

You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost

‘They capped their heads with feat… their faces, wore their clothes ba… with torches through the midnight… and dragged the black man from his… to the jolting music of broken

Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost– silly West, on your face a porcelain grin, tugging a papier-mache cactus

He, who navigated with success the dangerous river of his own bir… once more set forth on a voyage of discovery into the land I floated on

i Behind glass in Mexico this clay doll draws its lips back in a snarl; despite its beautiful dusty shawl,

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

i The children on the lawn joined hand to hand go round and round each arm going into

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