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(a trifle)
My mind is busy up above With heaven’s myrmidons. It’s very happy to receive A visitor or two throughout the day But never can recall the things we say…
Feb 7
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J.Z Schafer
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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…
Feb 7
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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…
Jan 29
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J.Z Schafer
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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…
Jan 26
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J.Z Schafer
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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…
Jan 20
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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…
Jan 18
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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…
Jan 13
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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…
Jan 9
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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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