I wandered lonely as a cloud
   That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
   A host, of golden daffodils...

From "The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth

As lonely as the dead awake
Or God among the dinosaurs...

From "Museum" by Glyn Maxwell

Look: I am building absence
out of this room's air, I'm reading suppositions into
summer's script snarled on a varnished floor.
It looks like a man. That knot's his hand
waving good-bye...

From "Drawing from Life" by Reginald Shepherd


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