For Wilf and His House Lyrics

A kite is a victim you are sure of.You love it because it pullsgentle enough to call you master,strong enough to call you fool;because it liveslike a desperate trained falconin the...Read Full Lyrics

After the Sabbath prayersThe Baal Shem's butterflyFollowed me down the hill.Now the Baal Shem is deadThese hundreds of yearsAnd a butterfly ends its lifeIn three flag-swept days.So...Read Full Lyrics

You tell me that silenceis nearer to peace than poemsbut if for my giftI brought you silence(for I know silence)you would sayThis is not silencethis is another poemand you would ha...Read Full Lyrics

The flowers that I left in the ground,that I did not gather for you,today I bring them all back,to let them grow forever,not in poems or marble,but where they fell and rotted.And t...Read Full Lyrics

If it were Springand I killed a man,I would change him to leavesand hang him from a tree,a tree in a groveat the edge of a dune,where small beasts cameto flee the sun.Wind would ma...Read Full Lyrics

There are some menwho should have mountainsto bear their names to time.Grave-markers are not high enoughor green,and sons go far awayto lose the fisttheir father's hand will always...Read Full Lyrics

Whatever cities are brought down,I will always bring you poems,and the fruit of orchardsI pass by.Strangers in your bed,excluded by our grief,listening to sleep-whispering,will hea...Read Full Lyrics

I wonder how many people in this citylive in furnished rooms.Late at night when I look out at the buildingsI swear I see a face in every windowlooking back at me,and when I turn aw...Read Full Lyrics

It is late afternoon.I have put Beethoven on.It is foolish to impute painto the intense skybut that is what I have done.And I will impute lonelinessto the appearing moon.It is earl...Read Full Lyrics

An orchard of shore treesprecise because of autumnetches its branchesin the grey silk riverThe edge of the skyfills up with blue and soft sandA barge bearing lightslike the leaning...Read Full Lyrics