West of the Moon

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(a trifle)
I do not want escape. I want den-warmth of lions and our antlers crossed Like Greeks with tridents fighting in the surf; I want my blood to pump until…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
Homer is great because like all the heroes which he sung Who broke great horses to the power of their thighs, And horses from the brutal godhead sprung…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
The Light is shy. It makes an origami flower from your silk Nightclothes crumbled upon the floor, Black flower hardly able to deny How golden is the…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
The ocean, if It has a consciousness I would presume sometimes forgets What with the sharks and trash, Charybdis, and all the scaly-green, That on its…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
With age perhaps my mind will gather moss, Be less this thing I struggle so to anchor-down, Learn words for things that people use: That tackle gear and…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
The ghost who is not a ghost, Ghosts always having had the flesh, And this ghost not, will try you to convince That the real rose is the one without a…
 • J.Z Schafer
(a trifle)
I. Now I have tried to put the gravity, the mass Whatever we call weight or cause of weight, All that a man has ever felt Into the words I speak. For…
 • J.Z Schafer
West of the Moon
West of the Moon
West of the Moon is a publication of poems, or rather, trifles, written by J.Z Schafer
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