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"Your head was
radiant in its emptiness,
a small clean room."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Partial Resemblance." |
"Fair is the world.
I sing. The ache
up from heel to knee
of the weights
gives to the song its
ground bass."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Pulse." |
"Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Window." |
"A doll's hair concealing
an eggshell skull delicately
throbbing, within which
maggots in voluptuous unrest
jostle and shrug."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Partial Resemblance." |
"the petals creak and
begin to rise.
They rise and recurl
to a bud's form
and clamp shut.
I wait in the dark."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Pulse." |
"still I'm ready to believe perhaps
some lives
tremble and flare up there, four blocks away ..."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Window." |
"And when we
come to earth the roofs
are made of tiles,
pigeons
are walking on them...."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Perspectives." |
"The small sleek one wants to stop,
docile to the imploring soul of the trashbasket,
but the young tall curly one
wants to walk on; the glistening sidewalk
entices him to arcane happenings."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Rainwalkers." |
"We are a meadow where the bees hum:
mind and body are almost one"
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. Bedtime (l. 1-2). . .
Poems 1960-1967 [Denise Levertov]. (1983) New Directions. |
"The dawn alps,
the stilled snake of
river asleep in its
wide bed ..."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Perspectives." |
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