The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest. Barbara Guest

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      Bell

       ii

      the eye tolls as burnished as Bell

      on coral the wave breaks or here

      cold zone of equal blue and grey

      Tritons’ throng appears

      where zephyrs

      cast skyward by the spume glance down

      on islands of the deep mermaids

      we’ll never see or hear yet each

      wave rolling brings in brightest

      phosphorescence their hair

      a lyre

      sweet voice of brine

      other secrets

      in the tease and stress of wave song

      Sun

      multipowered it brushes

      thins and splays

      burns

      wild-lidded over foam in air to touch

      Remembering the violence

      we turn on house pillow and let

      dolphins surmise us (dreams) the lap

      of shore water enter our heads as ponds

      forced from sea are inlets, we are

      islets become soft become grassy

      turning swaying to each and yet

      the angry

      it calls

      Noon

      the crab walks

      Night

      small fish

      Rock and dawn

      Fog

       iii

      I would walk from this porch to your farthest

      do I dare

      Lights without you the house is ghosty

      the pier is broken

      its points are webbed

      cricket and bird song about alas

      until morning the great sea and ledge

      from which pines such low soundings pines

      that are green and sea that is swelling

      sea whose earth is sandy who in sleep

      changes as the pilot arm beckons

      the arm we lie on shifts

      early the stir

      to crease from night close to begin

      to gather to fall as Wave

      Bountiful and Bare

Geography

       cold

      Moon track across the snow field

      a saddle I ride its rope

      into the light

      the flank is soft

      a fine departure the snow

      bears my weight

       to the mosses

      the ripest blossoms fall

      turn black in water

      so dependency on sun is error

      rather blue milk fields skimmed

      and grass shod of twilight plain

      than urn water swamp

      on however

      the swamp leaves at horse’s neck

      a chatter of owl and bird fright

      the rope loosens

      the hand is moist with vine leech

      a journey wince of cowhide

      shriek and storm where weather

      suddenly

      warms

      we reach the pole

      of earth statues

       heat

      visibleness decreases

      immaculate as a heron

      without rust

      I shine

      the snow in the wound

      becomes stucco

      the magnificent sun

      waves a flag above it

      *Jaffa Juce is an orange drink high in vitamins, low in price, bottled and drunk in Britain.

       The Blue Stairs

The Blue Stairs

      There is no fear

      in taking the first step

      or the second

      or the third

      having a position

      between several Popes

      In fact the top

      can be reached

      without disaster

      precocious

      The code

      consists in noticing

      the particular shade

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