New & Collected Poems by Ruth Fainlight -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Description Title Page Dedication ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Table of Contents New Poems

The Empty Lot Midland Contemporary Diversion Dawn Blue Windows Insomniac’s Moon Their Story Ageing A Different Form Borrowed Time The Wedding Chapel Facts About Ants Pain Figure Dixit Dominus Nacre Before the Fall An Ancient Ritual Last Year’s Sicknesses Slow Wet Flakes The Shower Triptych Collateral Damage Water, Fire, Blood Tongue-tied

Cages

Dawn Chorus The Angels Cages Equinox The Brothers Self-confessed Hope The Ante-room A Child Asleep The Screaming Baby The Infanticide The Shriving Stones Autumn Stirring The Chain The Ghost The Arab Fluter Some Thoughts on Death White Nights New Moon and Full Moon Mooncity Ashy Moon One Phase of the Moon Song The Old Bear Old Man in Love The Black Goddess A Painting Time Theory The Night Flower A Fable Everyone Dies Four Verses

To See the Matter Clearly

Gloria The Muse The Chain Unseemly Sleep-learning Fever Hospital Water The Spirit Moving on the Face of the Water Fire Wide-eyed Love and Justice The Midas Touch To See the Matter Clearly Bacchante The Weather Night Mare Uncertain Paradise Air Old Man, Old Woman A Missing Word The Hero’s Mother Seven Sevens Definitions

The Region’s Violence

The Climber snow poem God’s Language Lilith The Dolphins Isolates Neighbour Sleepers Lake and Island Two Blue Dresses My Grandparents My Hands My Eyes Fire Queen Pigeons at Villa Belmonte The Betrothal Silence Disguise Last Chance, Last Hope Velázquez’ Christ in the House of Martha and Mary Beardsley’s St Rose of Lima Tanya The Ox Self-conquest, Heroes and Dragons Rapture Then On the Moon Falling A Fairy Story Progress The Field The Lambs The White Bird Freedom Defined Words and Letters Poem Grace-notes

Another Full Moon

Vertical The Other The Lace-wing The Usual Poem August Full Moon Another Full Moon Dinner-table Conversation Last Days The Spider and the Fly The End of July The Demonstration At the Horizon Afterwards Souvenir The Fall The Boat Hair Other Rooms My Thoughts Burnt Paper Traces Waking Appearance Pompeian Dreams The Preserver Realising My Solitude Breath Glass-thoughts My Position in the History of the Twentieth Century Bergamo Collage Drunk Moon Moon Words

Sibyls and Others

I. SIBYLS A Sibyl Aeneas’ Meeting with the Sibyl A Desert Sibyl The Cumaean Sibyl I The Cumaean Sibyl II From The Sibylline Books The Hebrew Sibyl Sibyl of the Waters The Delphic Sibyl Destruction of a Sibyl Herophile Sibyl on the Run Hallucinating Sibyl The Cimmerian Sibyl Sick Sibyl Blocked Sibyl Rescue of the Sibyl The Persian Sibyl The Sibyls in Amiens Cathedral The Sibila The Libyan Sibyl The Phrygian Sibyl The Shinto Sibyl The Tiburtine Sibyl The Oracle at Dodona A Young Sibyl Introspection of a Sibyl II. OTHERS Only the Magpie Time’s Metaphors Danger Areas Driving Northward The Route Napoleon Trees Deadheading the Roses The New Tree New Year in England The First of October With David in the Nimrud Galleries Childhood The Message A Child Crying Almost-full Moon That Smile Unsuitable It Must Anja’s Poem Divination by Hair Satellite Always Time Meeting Again Animal Tamer Going Back The Function of Tears Suddenly Grief Not Well-mapped as Heaven The Thorn My Rings Questions Not Grief but Fear Too Late Time Come Terra Incognita That Coming Mystery Fire All Those Victorian Paintings Belief Summer Storm Midsummer Night Squirrel in Holland Park Hospital Flowers Dreaming House-guest The Gambler Meat Aftermath The King Must Die The New Science of Strong Materials Usually Dry-eyed To Somehow Manage a Poem The Dancing Floor

Poems from Chapbooks

from TWENTY-ONE POEMS (1973) Today A Midland Goddess Moon Landing The Atlantic Beaches Fragments of a Dream CLIMATES (1983) Further…Closer While Summer Runs Its Course The Distant View Like shadows on the lawn – Another Variation Angel from the North Vanguards An Unmarked Ship Red Sky at Night… Anticipated To Break This Silence

Fifteen to Infinity

Passenger Stubborn Here Outside the Mansion Author! Author! The Journey Launching After Fifteen Love-feast Handbag War Time Or Her Soft Breast Lost Drawing Crystal Pleating The Storm In Memoriam H.P.F. As Though She Were a Sister Spring in Ladbroke Square Marvellous Toys Titian’s Venus and Adonis Susannah and the Elders The Noonday Devil Ulysses, Troilus and Cressida The Song of Matho-Talen Miriam’s Well Archive Film Material The Mount of Olives Leonard Baskin’s Death Drawings Trompe l’Oeil The Angel Silk Kimonos Sediments The Prism Red Message Entries Observations of the Tower Block Spring in the City Spring Light Calcutta Valleys and Mountains Passions Natural History The Music Death’s Love-bite Acrobatic Full Moon Products of the Pig The Power Source The Circle Judgement at Marble Arch The Barrier Difficult Reward

The Knot

The Knot The European Story On the Theme of Artifice The Yellow Plate Flower Feet Poppies Flies Early Rivers August The Neville Brothers Rock Island In Tuscaloosa – Out on the Porch Off the Interstate Rand McNally Between the Canyons Survival of the Cult Bouzigues The Garden Blossom and Technology The Japanese Bath Japanese Syllabics Incense Keeper Learning About Him ‘Softly Awakes My Heart…’ Those Photographs Towards My Waiting Mother Station Road My Fuchsia The Crescent The Fabric A Discussion with Patrick Kavanagh Like Manet’s Olympe Ovid Among the Scythians Unique Forms Driving I Driving II Driving III The Dead Sea The Planetarium Rosebay Willow-herb String Cartography High Pressure Zone Sister, Sister Cup and Sword Evil Enters A Room The Restlessness of Sunset The Limitations of Tiredness That Presence Autumn Garden Poem The Wittersham Sibyl The Same Power The Same Ease The Novelty In Drummond’s Room The Poet –

This Time of Year

I. This Time of Year The Coptic Wedding Lineage Choosing Nails and Spiders and Jacks The X-Ray Machine Tosca II. Mottoes Out to Lunch A Couple Warped Toward the North The Author My Lucky Star A Village Story A Saga Galatea Phallic Sapphics The Necklace Romance Homage A Mourner Lark Until You Read It III. Bird and Worm The Old Dog The Fish Visitation Reflection Part of the Crowd – The Law To Whom It Pertains The Plastic Bag The Problem IV. Newborn The Cranes Late Low Sun Flowing Stream Thunder Buds Solstice Privacy on Lake Ochrid On the Coast Road Veronica’s Napkin, or ‘Nick’s Lament’ Art Chardin’s Jar of Apricots Arshile Gorky’s Mother

Twelve Sibyls

Squatting at the Womb’s Mouth Sibyl Hands Facts About the Sibyl After Possession Profiles His Face Dreamy Weighty Inward What Greater God… Elegant Sibyl The Egg Mother

Sugar-Paper Blue

I. Agua de Colonia The Bowl Pomegranate The Lizard The Same The Old Typewriter Friends’ Photos Young Men Maenad Silly Whatever Eyeliner Milky Way Chained Angel II. The Mercury Vapour Moth Trap Hendon Central Nature Horns Evacuee Dinah (Genesis 34) Fatima Two Pictures by Judith Rothchild Vendange Ancient Egyptian Couples Woodman III. The Corset Lady Hand Shoes The Tooth Fairy Bruises Pain Jade IV. Signs and Wonders Spider Plant Black Plastic and Poplars Driving IV Somerset August Autumn Crocus Morpho His Things The Bench Those Trees Whatever It Was Where and There and Here The Gates The Point of It All Poetry V. Sugar-Paper Blue Sugar-Paper Blue

Burning Wire

Burning Wire In the Dream Song Transience Ephemeral Lives Beetle What Thankful The Tree Surgeon Ordinary Sorrow Potatoes Prosody This Visitor Footprint Insistence Black La Chaise Bleue Feathers Our Song Primrose Cottage Sunday Afternoon Four Pheasants The Drive Back The English Country Cottage Green Tomatoes An Encounter Near Ladbroke Square In Ladbroke Square The Begonias Lisbon Faces Peruvian Views Montevideo Shocked The Clarinettist Opera in Holland Park La Traviata in 2001 Spiralling Shawl The Constellation of the Jacket Feathers and Jug The Second Page The Screen Door My Mother’s Eyes Even Captain Marvel December Moon Cousins Those Days Prescience Brush and Comb Essential Equipment Knives Stranger The Mechanism In Illo Tempore SHEBA AND SOLOMON

Moon Wheels

Apogee Moon Wheels Moving Blankets A Bowl of Apples What You See Almost Immortality A Lost Painting by Balthus Lovely Hands Gothick Fingernails Never Again The Nest Those Short Seasons Crocuses Memorials A New Book Mosaic Deletion Powder Mountain Sinking The Fourth Dimension The Pool-hall Theory The Jester’s Legs Robbery A Border Incident The Anxiety of Airports Plans An Ichneumon Wasp Doom of Kings A Postcard from Tunis The Threshold Fabulous Beings The Garden of Eden War Moon

Translations

SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER Midday One Day Day of the Sea Sibyls Listen Beach Torpid Shores In the Poem Muse Twilight of the Gods The Small Square Cyclades The Islands Writing VICTOR MANUEL MENDIOLA Your Hand, My Mouth SOPHOCLES I Jocasta’s death II Oedipus enters the Underworld III The deaths of Antigone and Haemon

INDEX

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z

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