Denise Levertov Poems

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11.
Variation On A Theme By Rilke

A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me--a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
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12.
Losing Track

Long after you have swung back
away from me
I think you are still with me:
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13.
From The Roof

This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers
          animal vines twisting over the line and
          slapping my face lightly, soundless merriment
          in the gesticulations of shirtsleeves,
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14.
Living

The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.
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15.
Intrusion

After I had cut off my hands
and grown new ones

something my former hands had longed for
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16.
Hymn To Eros

O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.
Let the shadow of thy wings
brush me.
Let thy presence
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17.
Everything That Acts Is Actual

From the tawny light
from the rainy nights
from the imagination finding
itself and more than itself
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18.
Contraband

The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason.
That's why the taste of it
drove us from Eden. That fruit
was meant to be dried and milled to a fine powder
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19.
Illustrious Ancestors

The Rav
of Northern White Russia declined,
in his youth, to learn the
language of birds, because
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20.
The Garden Wall

Bricks of the wall,
so much older than the house -
taken I think from a farm pulled down
when the street was built -
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