«In the cold season, in a locality accustomed to heat more than / to cold, to horizontality more than to a mountain, / a child was born in a cave in order to save the world; / it blew as only in deserts in winter it blows, athwart. To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother’s breast, the...»
«My dear Telemachus, / The Trojan War / is over now; I don’t recall who won it. / The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave / so many dead so far from their own homeland. / But still, my homeward way has proved too long. / While w...»
«Twice I woke up tonight and wandered to / the window. And the lights down on the street, / like pale omission points, tried to complete / the fragment of a sentence spoken through / sleep, but diminished darkness, too. I’d dreamt that you were pregnant, and in spite / of having lived so...»
«No matter what went on around them; no matter / what message the snowstorm was straining to utter; / or how crowded they thought that wooden affair; / or that there was nothing for them anywhere. Above their encampment, the sky. cold and idle, / and leaning as big things will do over little...»