Li-Young Lee Poems

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11.
Visions And Interpretations

Because this graveyard is a hill,
I must climb up to see my dead,
stopping once midway to rest
beside this tree.
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12.
Dreaming Of Hair

Ivy ties the cellar door
in autumn, in summer morning glory
wraps the ribs of a mouse.
Love binds me to the one
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13.
Pillow

There's nothing I can't find under there.
Voices in the trees, the missing pages
of the sea.
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14.
This Hour And What Is Dead

Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking
through the bare rooms over my head,
opening and closing doors.
What could he be looking for in an empty house?
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15.
My Indigo

It's late. I've come
to find the flower which blossoms
like a saint dying upside down.
The rose won't do, nor the iris.
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16.
Out Of Hiding

Someone said my name in the garden,

while I grew smaller
in the spreading shadow of the peonies,
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17.
For A New Citizen Of These United States

Forgive me for thinking I saw
the irregular postage stamp of death;
a black moth the size of my left
thumbnail is all I've trapped in the damask.
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18.
Nativity

In the dark, a child might ask, What is the world?
just to hear his sister
promise, An unfinished wing of heaven,
just to hear his brother say,
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19.
The Sacrifice

We come to each other
exactly at the center,
the spine of ample fire, and suffer
to be revised.
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20.
With Ruins

Choose a quiet
place, a ruins, a house no more
a house,
under whose stone archway I stood
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