Lisel Mueller Face Poems

  • 1.
    1992

    1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.

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  • 2.
    What happened is, we grew lonely
    living among the things,
    so we gave the clock a face,
    the chair a back,
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  • 3.
    Such insignificance: a glance
    at your record on the doctor's desk
    or a letter not meant for you.
    How could you have known? It's not true
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  • 4.
    In 1936, a child
    in Hitler's Germany,
    what did I know about the war in Spain?
    Andalusia was a tango
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  • 5.
    I. Insomnia

    The bulb at the front door burns and burns.
    If it were a white rose it would tire of blooming
    ...
Total 5 Face Poems by Lisel Mueller

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Psalm 119 Part 10
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Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
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