<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