The night isn’t dark; the world is dark. Stay with me a little longer.

No rain the whole summer, This is the first rain of the autumn, Rain outside the window

I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies;

How to tell it all? Referring to what chronicles?

He saw her from the bottom of the stairs
Before she saw him. She was starting down,

There was a country where they were all thieves.

​Compared to darkness, our eyes have become accustomed to light, and if we are exposed to an excessive amount of light, we may even start perceiving darkness itself as 'light.'

Teucer: . . . in sea-girt Cyprus, where it was decreed

Summer was killed with the first drop of rain
Moistening the words that had given birth to starlight.

it so happened that a secretary of raikom
set out in the summer of ‘32 in his official car to the Karaganda region

To go to Lvov. Which station
for Lvov, if not in a dream, at dawn, when dew

Out of the corpse-warm foyer of heaven steps thesun.
There it is not the immortals,
but rather the fallen, we perceive.

Midnight. Just wrote a poem. I walked outdoors.
Misty. Cloudy. A grey sky, shrunken, starless
All around, a low, sinking mist
A feeling that everything is disappearing

Mary, in her twilight years
was fetching water
at the dim stone well

Sleeping
under a tree
an apple fell on my head

Man creates meaning through language.

In August, the mad sun is burning furiously
in the firmament

WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument,..

Into your virtual city I’ll have passed
Unregistered by scans, screens, hidden eyes,
Lapping myself in time, an absorbed face

Emily Dickinson’s reverence for life led her to revere the world in which life unfolded.

There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons --

My wife with the hair of a wood fire
With the thoughts of heat lightning

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacrecl river, ran

Something must be done right away
that much we know

It was October12, 1982
my birthday