Yellow Stars and Ice
1st Edition
Published on 11. February 2021
82 pages
978-0-691-21789-5 (ISBN)
Description
From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden":
Gihon, that compasseth the whole land
At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love; cows would no longer let go of their calves, hiding them deep in the birch groves. Everywhere the roads gave off their wild animal cries, running toward the edge of what we had thought was the world. And the names of things as we knew them would no longer bring them to us.
Gihon, that compasseth the whole land
At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love; cows would no longer let go of their calves, hiding them deep in the birch groves. Everywhere the roads gave off their wild animal cries, running toward the edge of what we had thought was the world. And the names of things as we knew them would no longer bring them to us.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- My Ear to the Chest of the World
- 1. from the throw of hours
- Every True Miracle
- The Long Boats of the Afternoon
- At Six
- Ornament: The Towns of Sleep
- In the Exact Middle of the Night
- The Black Tulips
- 2. the faces in the trees
- The Delta Parade
- Letter Full of Blue Dresses
- The Windmills
- In the Fields
- The way the milkweed pods
- The Drowned
- The Miners of Delta
- 3. in the storefronts
- My City Knows How to Carry the Sky
- Terror
- Neighbors
- Things Get Harder
- How the River Climbed Into this Poem
- The White Houses
- The Doves Are Swallowing Wind
- 4. the streets confuse themselves with rivers once
- Baltimore
- Two Allusions to the House of Walt Whitman
- The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden
- Take Today
- How Long Does It Take
- Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
- 5. a window flies open
- The Summons
- Wish you were here
- It's All You Said It Would Be and More
- If I'm Homesick
- The Souvenirs
- Meaning to Drop You a Line
- Yellow Stars and Ice
- The Carnival at the End of the Parade
- 6. once a starling hits the glass
- The Dedication of Sleep
