Jocelyn Emerson Night Poems
- 1. The Lighthouse
i.
Impatient with spring's incendiary budding, we longed for the
irreconcilable tossing of summer's phenomenal vowels: brief cawing
... - 2. The Bean Field
…but infinities also passed out of this life,
not having any witnesses, how, when, or in
what manner they departed.
-Boccaccio, The Decameron
... - 3. Night Blindness
Beneath any common belief
lies the unspoken, occluded, torn
way we proceed. (On the beach
we were washed clean by transverse
... - 4. Imaginary Weather
The consolations of space are nameless things.
-Wallace Stevens
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