Lisel Mueller Sun Poems

  • 1.
    You have read War and Peace.
    Now here is Sister Carrie,
    not up to Tolstoy; still
    it will second the real world:
    ...
  • 2.
    1992

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

    ...
  • 3.
    Doctor, you say there are no haloes
    around the streetlights in Paris
    and what I see is an aberration
    caused by old age, an affliction.
    ...
  • 4.
    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
    ...
  • 5.
    Speaking of marvels, I am alive
    together with you, when I might have been
    alive with anyone under the sun,
    when I might have been Abelard's woman
    ...
  • 6.
    If an inaudible whistle
    blown between our lips
    can send him home to us,
    then silence is perhaps
    ...
Total 6 Sun Poems by Lisel Mueller

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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

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