Laura (riding) Jackson Poems

  • 1.
    Across a continent imaginary
    Because it cannot be discovered now
    Upon this fully apprehended planet-
    No more applicants considered,
    ...
  • 2.
    With the face goes a mirror
    As with the mind a world.
    Likeness tells the doubting eye
    That strangeness is not strange.
    ...
  • 3.
    This is not exactly what I mean
    Any more than the sun is the sun.
    But how to mean more closely
    If the sun shines but approximately?
    ...
  • 4.
    The secrets of the mind convene splendidly,
    Though the mind is meek.
    To be aware inwardly
    of brain and beauty
    ...
  • 5.
    The little quids, the million quids,
    The everywhere, everything, always quids,
    The atoms of the Monoton-
    Each turned three essences where it stood
    ...
  • 6.
    Here where the end of bone is no end of song
    And the earth is bedecked with immortality
    In what was poetry
    And now is pride beside
    ...
  • 7.
    I do not doubt you.
    I know you love me.
    It is a fact of your indoor face,
    A true fancy of your muscularity.
    ...
Total 7 Poems by Laura (riding) Jackson

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