POEM
Weigl, Bruce
POEM Bruce Weigl Our Independence Day I didn't know our night trees could feel this safe, three a.m., an early dove coos for someone; stars and more stars. I didn't know what I didn't know. I...
...Here, the night trees feel safe...
...Program in Writing at Pennsylvania State University...
...I didn't want a life of anything then, only a life...
...We used to say God and Mummy in our half sleep between red glare rockets roaring in...
...no luminous human beings in the sultry garden at least...
...for Charles Simic) Bruce Weigl teaches in the M.F.A...
...Someone told me Let it go boy, let the green untangle from your body...
...Weigl's "New and Selected Poems" is forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic...
...His most recent book is "Sweet Lorain" (TriQuarterly Books, 1996...
...We used to say It don't mean nothing over bodies we found in muddy battle...
Vol. 61 • July 1997 • No. 7
