A roof is no guarantee
that you'll sleep
The unease of premises
pins together the curtains
at night
Waiting for a clearness
of purpose
Eating 3 meals a day
we go to bed hungry
Privacy is not a remedy
We've become separated
by "efficiencies"
Nobody can do anything with
A kind of machine person
Floundering in the dark
It's hard to believe
5 sparrows were sold for this
An Empty Account
The simplest relationships happen without
any expectation this is what I believe
The infatuation in a girl's cheeks
The eyes of a man when he looks on
My spouse, I am poor
I'm a paper situation
Year by year
year after year
There have been a string of bad years
I sit at a large table
Words don't unravel overnight
The kingdom of money
and the kingdom of memory
The necessity to bend one's head forward
Nothing but a blind prompting
A woman turned to Him, you know
His mouth a towel into which
His resigning
His panic stricken resignation
was withdrawn
This overwhelming lamentation
The things that are never confided
A child walking and running
He takes hold of my hand
fascinated by the squirrel
Something deeper than "use"
I could love home in a deep sense
Gone to Earth
Beyond innocence
the exhibition
of obedient faith
is precedent
Work on the limits
A limit of what can be thought
outlives ambivalence
You work yourself to death
To enlarge an abstract
madness
Never so divine
a will
One step further
and the bed is no longer
under you
and no letter
I'm out of humor
This is for the you
In my memory
A picture
you would be the better of
You have hidden yourself well,
in attention
Little else to occupy your heart
Small change
The birds spreading their wings
to which I am joined
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Pam Rehm
Gone to Earth
Flood Editions
2001
