Collected Love Poems by Brian Patten

Collected Love Poems by Brian Patten





This is a book full of beautiful images, of wide eyed wonder with the sheer beauty,terror of the collections subject matter.

Fantastic creatures climb off the page to converse with the reader on items as mundane or as mythical as the readers credulity,or to curl up & slowly bleed to death whilst you shout your denials.

Into my mirror has walked

A woman who will not talk

Of love or of its subsidiaries,

But who stands there,

Pleased by her own silence.

The weather has worn into her

All seasons known to me,

In one breast she holds

Evidence of forests,

In the other, of seas.

I will ask her nothing yet

Would ask so much

If she gave some sign-

Her shape is common enough,

Enough shape to love.

But what keeps me here

Is what glows beyond her.

I think at times

A boy's body

Would be as easy

To read light into,

I think at times

My own might do. 

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