Kenneth Patchen Heaven Poems
- 1. We Go Out Together In The Staring Town
We go out together into the staring town
And buy cheese and bread and little jugs with
flowered labels
... - 2. The Snow Is Deep On The Ground
The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
... - 3. Be Music, Night
Be music, night,
That her sleep may go
Where angels have their pale tall choirs
... - 4. The Naked Land
A beast stands at my eye.
I cook my senses in a dark fire.
The old wombs rot and the new mother
... - 5. Irkalla's White Caves
I believe that a young woman
Is standing in a circle of lions
In the other side of the sky.
... - 6. Saturday Night In The Parthenon
Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room.
A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water,
And in the corner away from the hearth, the red wheels
Of an up-ended chariot slowly turn.
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