This poem is taken from PN Review 113, Volume 23 Number 3, January - February 1997.
From Innumerable Languages
*
All the rainfall of the last decade has definitely fallen.
On the other hand, something must be around here some-
where or other.
Why does your privileged watch not keep a privileged time
of its own?
*
I think I could sit reading your supermarket receipts for
ever.
Look: exactly six months ago you bought exactly ten
things.
Some of which had recently been dazzling movement in
water.
*
In this photograph of you, there is only you and the sky.
Which is to say, only you and something not really so
important.
And a white bird wheeling through it, presumably ecstatic.
*
Light, watery movements from the bath just through the
wall.
For a moment, again, there is something right about every-
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