Showing posts with label North Central. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Central. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 October 2008

Lorine Niedecker's North Central (London: Fulcrum, 1968)

NB: as Blogger does not allow indention (as far as I know), the placement of lines is sometimes incorrect.



Beauty: impurities in the rock

"Lake Superior"

We are what the seas
have made us

longingly immense

*

Ah your face
but it's whether
you can keep me warm

*

Sewing a dress


The need
these closed-in days

to move before you
smooth-draped
and color-elated

in a favorable wind

*

Shelter


Holed damp
cellar-black beyond
the main atrocities
my sense of propriety's
adrift

"Traces of Living Things"


Pigeons
(I miss the gulls)

mourn the loss
of people
no wild bird does

"Wintergreen Ridge"