<lee's "night songs">
2004-02-21.3:19 p.m.
Night Songs Dennis Lee words, words, words! how have I lived if not by you? not by sense alone. nor audible sounds, although I love them. it is sub-linguistic seethed-half-veiled/half opening-you dislocate me into which stakes me out, which lures me in. I'm a goner one more time. And you seize me and whirl me about, dark words I'm mortgaged to: my owners, my darlings, my own to whom have I belonged if not to you
back /& forth /& frosting
names are often sad