Margaret Atwood White Poems
- 1. The City Planners
Cruising these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight:
what offends us is
the sanities:
... - 2. Variation On The Word Sleep
I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
... - 3. In The Secular Night
In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It's two-thirty.
Everyone has deserted you,
or this is your story;
... - 4. Flying Inside Your Own Body
Your lungs fill & spread themselves,
wings of pink blood, and your bones
empty themselves and become hollow.
When you breathe in youâ??ll lift like a balloon
... - 5. Provisions
What should we have taken
with us? We never could decide
on that; or what to wear,
or at what time of
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