Christian Wiman Poems

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1.
From A Window

Incurable and unbelieving
in any truth but the truth of grieving,
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2.
The Ice Storm

Then all one day because of ice
they couldn't make it down the hill.
Or up, James says,
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3.
From One Time

But the world is more often refuge
than evidence, comfort and covert
for the flinching will, rather than the sharp
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4.
The Last Hour

Lean and sane
in the last hour
of a long fast
or fiercer discipline
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5.
Night's Thousand Shadows

1. deathbed
There is a word that is not water,
has nothing to do with heat or light,
is unrelated to any one pain
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6.
Do You Remember The Rude Nudists

Do you remember the rude nudists?

Lazing easy in girth and tongue,
wet slops and smacks of flesh as they buttered every crevice.
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7.
Hard Night

What words or harder gift
does the light require of me
carving from the dark
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8.
This Inwardness, This Ice

This inwardness, this ice,
this wide boreal whiteness
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9.
Rhymes For A Watertower

A town so flat a grave's a hill,
A dusk the color of beer.
A row of schooldesks shadows fill,
A row of houses near.
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10.
Darkness Starts

A shadow in the shape of a house
slides out of a house
and loses its shape on the lawn.
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