Book: Improvisations: Light And Snow

• Improvisations: Light and Snow: 01

  The girl in the room beneath
  Before going to bed

  9 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 02

  I stood for a long while before the shop window
  Looking at the blue butterflies embroidered on tawny silk.

  8 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 10

  It is night time, and cold, and snow is falling,
  And no wind grieves the walls.

  19 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 03

  The first bell is silver,
  And breathing darkness I think only of the long scythe of time.

  19 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 14

  Like an old tree uprooted by the wind
  And flung down cruelly

  8 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 04

  On the day when my uncle and I drove to the cemetery,
  Rain rattled on the roof of the carriage;

  10 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 12

  How many times have we been interrupted
  Just as I was about to make up a story for you!

  26 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 05

  When I was a boy, and saw bright rows of icicles
  In many lengths along a wall

  8 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 09

  This girl gave her heart to me,
  And this, and this.

  19 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 06

  It is now two hours since I left you,
  And the perfume of your hands is still on my hands.

  10 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 11

  As I walked through the lamplit gardens,
  On the thin white crust of snow,

  15 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 07

  The day opens with the brown light of snowfall
  And past the window snowflakes fall and fall.

  19 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 13

  My heart is an old house, and in that forlorn old house,
  In the very centre, dark and forgotten,

  21 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 08

  Many things perplex me and leave me troubled,
  Many things are locked away in the white book of stars

  19 lines
• Improvisations: Light And Snow: 15

  The music of the morning is red and warm;
  Snow lies against the walls;

  15 lines

• By me, right now

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