Particles: New and Selected Poems. Dan Gerber

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СКАЧАТЬ Pain

      8  Climate

      9  Bliss

      10  Pebble

      11  Foreign

      12  Dust II

      13  Dark Matter

      14  The Turkey Vulture

      15  Fire Season

      16  Letter to Jim about Woodpeckers

      17  Waiting for My Father to Speak

      18  Infinite in All Directions

      19  Second Look

      20  Voyage

      21  Nirvana

      22  The Weather Channel

      23  This World Too

      24  Spring Creek

      25  Summers with Martha

      26  Each to Each

      27  Age

      28  Cloud Shadows

      29  Finally, This Rain

      30  New Life

      31  Aviatrix

      32  The Andromeda Galaxy

      33  A Flea in Late Life

      34  Neruda Falls

      35  Old Books

      36  To Jim from the River

      37  Only This Morning

      38  The Atom of the Actual

      39  From a Ridge on Figueroa Mountain

      40  Once Again, in August

      41  Brief Exquisite

        Index of Titles

        Index of First Lines

        About the Author

        Books by Dan Gerber

        Acknowledgments

        Copyright

        Special Thanks

      Particles

       The reason you do not clearly understand

       the time-being

       is that you think of time only as passing.

      DŌGEN, AD 1240

       We must endure our thoughts all night, until

       The bright obvious stands motionless in cold.

      WALLACE STEVENS, 1946

      Winter solstice — the sun

      stopped for a moment —

      can you feel its light stretching —

      as it shrugs off its migration

      and turns back north toward the pole?

      On this rock, just the right

      distance from the nearest star,

      sheltered СКАЧАТЬ