Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMMACULATE VIEW, by JANE MILLER


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First Line: Love: the power of lust turned generous, the power of sleep
Last Line: Prescient body:
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Lust


love: the power of lust turned generous, the power of sleep to enter dream:
who has not wanted to climb on a warm day up again toward those sunny hills:
remember, how the whispers sweep us like grass fires: there's always memory
telling our fortune, with a purpose beyond the telling: to pearl the grainy
black day with color where all things long to persist in their being, as in the
beginning: violet cumuli gilded with lightning, creating space for us as we
advance: to think something never before possible, pristine stone, menhirs,
telluric shocks, daylight earth: o visibility, white as warm quartz: I sleep
and sleep and my father rows out at night, who taught me, not in pleasure alone
but with a kind of fear to touch another's body: tangible and liquescent, true,
untying the scarf from my eyes: what it's like in the void, fierce, defiant,
sad saraband: not with fear alone but in a blind of pleasure to touch a
prescient body:





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