Jocelyn Emerson Long Poems

  • 1.
    i.

    Impatient with spring's incendiary budding, we longed for the
    irreconcilable tossing of summer's phenomenal vowels: brief cawing
    ...
  • 2.
    Beneath any common belief
    lies the unspoken, occluded, torn
    way we proceed. (On the beach
    we were washed clean by transverse
    ...
  • 3.
    A coda lies in this actual frame
    of thin, noon light.

    Raw and rigid wound.
    ...
  • 4.
    The consolations of space are nameless things.
    -Wallace Stevens


    ...
Total 4 Long Poems by Jocelyn Emerson

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Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth
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Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth-
Widths out of the Sun-
And look-and shudder, and block your breath-
And deem to be alone

In such a place, what horror,
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