#w.s.graham

[jacques-chap-book]

I LEAVE THIS AT YOUR EAR

I leave this at your ear for when you wake,

A creature in its abstract cage asleep

Your dreams blindfold you by the light they make.

The owl called from the naked woman tree

As I came down by the Kyle farm to hear

Your house silent by the speaking sea

I have come late but I have come before

Later with slaked steps from stone to stone

To hope to find you listening for the door.

I stand in the ticking room. My dear, I take

A moth kiss from your breath. The shore gulls cry.

I leave this at our ear for when you wake.

- W.S.Graham (from ‘Malcolm Mooney’s Land’- 1970)

[povesham]

Enter a Cloud by W. S. Graham

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שיר מהמם

[coffeebooksandfriends]

Are you asleep I say into the back of your neck For you not to hear me. Are you asleep? I hear your heart under the pillow saying my dear my dear

W.S.Graham, To My Wife at Midnight

[writteninsentences]

Between the big buildings I sat like a flea crouched In the stopped works of a watch

          - W.S.Graham, 'The Night City'

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