West of the Moon

West of the Moon

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(a trifle)
After Yiannis Ritsos Becoming a human being Is digging a tunnel through crystal, Afflicted upon your back By swords and lashes of the light; And it is…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
I. Soon as I see that light My consciousness is ripped from me, A towel from the shoulders of a wrestler; And are his muscles chalcedony, plastic Or…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
It will take long work To change these several worlds Back into one: to take the clouds Of memory and passion; poems And films and systems of ideas…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
A little pain and suddenly My name slips from my hand Like as a dove released or fled, And I forget what we have laboured for, What sky and planets park…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
My son you are so beautiful. I ask the Lord to send his teams Of angels with bright spades To dig the bottom of my soul Beneath the round eburnean lakes…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
Scenes From My Porch While Reading Dante I was sitting on my porch In Georgia of the sweet red dirt In a tropical rainstorm reading the Paradiso When…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
He came into the house all dripping wet His fingers clenched and holding yet Great fistfuls of the ever-blooming light. His boots leave muddy prints…
 • J.Z Schafer
West of the Moon
West of the Moon
West of the Moon is a publication of poems, or rather, trifles, written by J.Z Schafer
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