Poetry
Autumn 1987
Soldier and Laughing Girl
(A painting by Vermeer) How long has the wine slept in her glass?The painter tells her to stay as she is.He is interested in the lighther face receives, like […]
Poetry
Autumn 1987
The Law of Gravity
I If I shut my eyes, everything I rememberslides by on its heavy bargelow in the water, voices a fleet mockery of lights on the muddy river.In the valleys of […]
Poetry
Summer 1980
Wolves
Freud’s famous ‘Wolf-Man” case is a history of a childhood nightmare: its sources in fairy tale and the experience of the primal scene, witnessed by Freud’s patient, an exiled Russian […]