Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Saving
- Out of this World
- Observatory
- Zentralfriedhof
- How to Remember
- Europe
- What's Gone Blue
- Plain Tongues
- As the Crow Flies the Sun Rips Day Open
- Boy
- The Roof
- Eva Braun in Linz
- Yellow
- My Girl in California
- St Peter
- The Soldiers
- Palace
- Outside Vienna
- Neutral Air
- Woman
- How to Forget
- The Sound
- In Time
- The Lever
- Fourteen Mistakes
- The Fall
- The Hold I Have
- Centre Strange
- Born Breathing
- The Heads
- Home
- Epilogue
- Maker
- Acknowledgements
Europe
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Saving
- Out of this World
- Observatory
- Zentralfriedhof
- How to Remember
- Europe
- What's Gone Blue
- Plain Tongues
- As the Crow Flies the Sun Rips Day Open
- Boy
- The Roof
- Eva Braun in Linz
- Yellow
- My Girl in California
- St Peter
- The Soldiers
- Palace
- Outside Vienna
- Neutral Air
- Woman
- How to Forget
- The Sound
- In Time
- The Lever
- Fourteen Mistakes
- The Fall
- The Hold I Have
- Centre Strange
- Born Breathing
- The Heads
- Home
- Epilogue
- Maker
- Acknowledgements
Summary
Today, you say, and all the stones can hear you
each building with its ankles, nape, and bones
watches with its stone-eyes for your footsteps and holds its
converts
closer to its dome they listen to sopranos who've trained
years
to glide a flightless note through this stone sky –
but we will not feign a smoothness,
we'll push past, like a kid impatient, refer to others’
rhythms of breath, beyond our shifting
grain of skin and eyes – because today,
you say, another man was buried
(push past) and the stones may hear but only we
speak back. And we are unsolved
and unsalvageable
and when we go we cannot take our ruins.
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- Nowhere Nearer , pp. 10Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2018