David Miller
(untitled)
Someone comes, out of the distance
form & face
clearing
....................................................
That night the town area near the sea.
Dreamt of a girl-child; her life thrown
amongst brutal, absurd people
in a house of ignorance
the cobbled streets, narrow lanes of memory.
2
Descending --
the head framed
by rectangle reflected silver
in the large high window
(opaque glass of door
lit from behind)
& ‘the head’ frontal -- a
face -- mine.
3
A form falling
&
the form of falling --
white sail
in darkness.
..................................
Beatrice -- Beata
Beatrix, Rossetti’s painting
in reproduction
on my wall, while
I slept, detached itself
by its weight
the sound waking me from a dream
white shape falling across
me cutting into the dream
Conscious of it, still screaming out, conscious
of a figure sitting up in bed in
dark screaming out.
4
Lit windows
in a dark frame --
various
boxes of night
........................
Love returns
where I
turn upon word
of night;
dark edge of
building, white wood,
lighted
room.
(1979)
Page(s) 69-70
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