Leslie Philibert Poems

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131.
Cry

a small locked heart,
webbed and half fish

or a netted bird;
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132.
Weasel

A bite like hot charcoal
a nate full
of stolen baby teeth
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133.
Stage Directions For An Unwritten Play

An old man in a kitchen prepares tea.
Carefully lighting a gas stove with matches
he boils water in a heavy enamel kettle.
With hands hidden in wool gloves he pours
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134.
The Last Of High Summer

a step-aside perspective
of less perfect petals
shaken by the thick air

steady and warm
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135.
Inschallah

Thrown is earth;
weightless through an open palm,
petals mixed with shouts,
a door closed; the sky locked down.
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136.
Chi

Breath of the night sky
autumn rain cleans small cold stars
river ice of jade
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137.
High Moor

A plate of glass
shallows ankle deep,
brew of fern and dark water
where the dogs of rain
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138.
Prayer (For Rainer Maria Rilke)

If there was a God
that could let me live forever
My love for you
would last twice as long as this.
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139.
Autobahn

On the Autobahn
between Mühldorf and
Ampfing there is,
at night,
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140.
Wolf Moon

A snapper, a black bag of lungs
low to the earth, a crust of dried leaves.
Eyes full of running, a sharp head turning
to head a sky full of moons, howl.
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