Lisel Mueller Life Poems
- 1. Scenic Route
For Lucy, who called them "ghost houses."
Someone was always leaving
... - 2. Another Version
Our trees are aspens, but people
mistake them for birches;
they think of us as characters
in a Russian novel, Kitty and Levin
... - 3. Immortality
In Sleeping Beauty's castle
the clock strikes one hundred years
and the girl in the tower returns to the world.
So do the servants in the kitchen,
... - 4. Curriculum Vitae
1992
1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.
... - 5. Monet Refuses The Operation
Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
... - 6. Why We Tell Stories
For Linda Foster
I
... - 7. A Day Like Any Other
Such insignificance: a glance
at your record on the doctor's desk
or a letter not meant for you.
How could you have known? It's not true
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