Leslie Philibert Poems

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101.
Lorna, King Lear And Portrush

A seafront full of salt; a lost girl
And a wind that puts space between us.
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102.
Die Feldkapelle

Maria`s little house, far from a shed of prayer,
a doll`s house, small roof clean

and bricked, aped from a farmhouse.
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103.
Hoar Frost

Hair of the spider;
the old man`s curse,
spicules of ice
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104.
Behind The Crucifix

If you know you have lost
then look over the silent stones.
Three trees against the dusk
and thorns that curl in the rain.
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105.
Cats

It is night
but there are lights
to show that veins are open.
Houses are trapped in amber
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106.
Wrong

There are too many moons,
bells are under the church.

The night is not as dark as a wet ditch
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107.
Elegy For Les

So when my profile
falls apart
and every swing door greets
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108.
Some Wit For The Delight Of The Groundlings

Ankle deep in straw and muck;
a belched mob delights in man woman man.
Smoke to be cut with a shout,
roars at the thought of a rutting,
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109.
The Lost Poem

Shoved in a jacket, a folded heart,
a breakage of words about the body fascism.
Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben
ist barbarisch. So sing then a song about
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110.
Southeast Nineteen

And this is what I need
When a statue drops
And flings porcelain
between my shoes.
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