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Li-Young Lee
The City in Which I Love You
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HT
has quoted
2 years ago
the excavated places,
I waited for you, and I did not cry out.
In the derelict rooms, my body needed you,
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
Make my various
names flock overhead,
I will follow you.
Hew me to your beauty.
Stack in me the unaccountable fire,
bring on me the iron leaf, but tenderly.
Folded one hundred times
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
will arise now, and go
about the city in the streets,
and in the broad ways I will seek…
whom my soul loveth.
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
And when, in the city in which I love you,
even my most excellent song goes unanswered,
and I mount the scabbed streets,
the long shouts of avenues,
and tunnel sunken night in search of you….
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
The book
on the windowsill, riffled by wind…
the even-numbered pages are
the past, the odd-
numbered pages, the future.
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
your cries are song, my body’s not me…
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
So I won’t show you letters and the shawl
I’ve so meaninglessly preserved.
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
Forgive me for thinking I saw
the irregular postage stamp of death;
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
He waited merely, as always someone
waits, far, near, here, hereafter, to find out:
is it praise or lament hidden in the next moment?
HT
has quoted
2 years ago
didn’t make the world I leave you with,
he said, and then, being poor, he left me
only this world, in which there is always
a family waiting in terror
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