Poets/Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian

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A straight rain is rare and doors have suspicions …

Lyn Hejinian

But isn’t midnight intermittent …

Lyn Hejinian

The water was rising, I got up on the bed …

Lyn Hejinian

I am writing now in preconceptions …

Lyn Hejinian

The spoons have clattered …

Lyn Hejinian

constant change figures …

Lyn Hejinian

Reason looks for Where I woke and was awake, in the …

Lyn Hejinian

Come October, it’s the lake not the border …

Lyn Hejinian

Home whose names are produced by motion …

Lyn Hejinian

The best words get said frequently—they are like fertile pips. …

Lyn Hejinian

Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now …

Lyn Hejinian

Wake up, get married, be born …

Lyn Hejinian

Puddings don’t have lungs, melons don’t have riders …

Lyn Hejinian

A star screen shimmers under the moon over the urban center flashing on it red …

Lyn Hejinian

rush to which …

Lyn Hejinian

the bird carries its peck up the branch …

Lyn Hejinian

A name trimmed They are seated in the shadows …

Lyn Hejinian

To begin with, I am faced with mountains to circumambulate, since I can't cut …

Lyn Hejinian

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