Collected Love Poems. Brian Patten

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Not Only

Into My Mirror Has Walked

These Songs Were Begun One Winter

The Ambush

A Blade of Grass

What I Need for the Present

Through All Your Abstract Reasoning

Song for Last Year’s Wife

On Time for Once

A Small Dragon

Doubt Shall Not Make an End of You

First Love

After Rimbaud’s Première Soirée

Now They Will Either Sleep, Lie Still, or Dress Again

Party Piece

Nor the Sun Its Selling Power

When She Wakes Drenched from Her Sleep

Dressed

The Transformation

Leavetaking

The Poor Fools

Tonight I Will Not Bother You

It is Time to Tidy Up Your Life

       Remembering

       Love Lesson

       The Innocence of Any Flesh Sleeping

       Someone Coming Back

       Mindless Now

       In Your Turning Against Walls

       The Confession

       She Complicates Her Life

       Perhaps

       The Assassination of the Morning

       A Creature to Tell the Time By

       A Suitcase Full of Dust

       The Mistake

       In Someplace Further On

       And Nothing is Ever as Perfect as You Want It to Be

       Simple Lyric

       Seascape

       Waves

       In the Dying of Anything

       Angel Wings

       Burning Genius

       Somewhere Between Heaven and Woolworth’s

       The Unicorn

       Her Song

       When into Sudden Beds

       Horror Story

       Rauin

       Park Note

       At Four O’Clock in the Morning

       Early in the Evening

       Lethargy

       One Another’s Light

       Our Lives Had Grown So Empty

       No Taxis Available

       On a Horse Called Autumn