You Fit Into Me

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You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

-Margaret Atwood

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Underneath (9)
by Jorie Graham.

        Spring
Up, up you go, you must be introduced.

You must learn      belonging to (no-one)

Drenched in the white veil (day)

The circle of minutes pushed gleaming onto your finger.

Gaps pocking the brightness where you try to see
in.

Missing: corners, fields,

completeness: holes growing in it where the eye looks hardest.

Below, his chest, a sacred weightless place

and the small weight of your open hand     on it.

And these legs, look, still yours, after all you've done with them.

Explain     the six missing seeds.

Explain       muzzled.

Explain     tongue breaks     thin fire      in eyes.

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Two Astronomers with Notebooks


Character I.   'Mirage
                       O everywhere. 
                                     The air
                very steady,'
                              said the astronomer.
                Notebook 1:  fd. 1 meteor.
                Notebook 2:  No meteors.  The horizon had
                             a sharp edge to it.
                Notebook 3:  No meteors, but there are
                             apparitions unrecorded because
                             visible only in an uncivilized country.
                Notebook 4:  They being invisible, added a 
                             lens.
                Notebook 5:  The stars are where they always 
                             are.
                Notebook 6:  They streamed crosswise, specific
                             as when a man dies.
                Notebook 7:  Advised to keep to the subject--
                             scholars are encouraged to study
                             the history of meteors
                Notebook 8:  No celestial event.
                Notebook 9:  Japan, A.D. 1037, 9th month, 16th 
                             day:  masses were said in 8 provinces
                             owing to the meteors.
                             the emperor was present at one 
                             of them.
               Notebook 10:  fd. 1 meteor

( Character II.   Notebook 1: )

To the mods: I'm really sorry about yesterday's confusion with the song lyrics. I was editing the post and didn't get your first comment til after I'd gotten confused and just reposted it. Didn't mean to offend. It won't happen again.

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Echo

Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimful of love abide and meet;
Where thirsty longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again though cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
as long ago, my love, how long ago!

Christina Rossetti