“with his words in my head I slept for thirty or forty forevers while the grass shrieked and the trees tremored it was crazy letting my youth pass like that giving myself up to the abstract fears balconies collapsing over the east river as far as the eye could see until all is miniature wind over water without end when I am dead I will have something to say about death & all the men stretched out a girl must be a graveyard I am a descendant of fields and want to keep my mind off it, especially” DeathPoetryPoemAnxietyStormFearsDeborah LandauThe Last Usable HourWasted Youth Book:The Last Usable Hour Source: The Last Usable Hour
“we were at rest and breathing away from lovely death” DeathPoetryAliveLovelyRestingDeborah LandauThe Last Usable Hour Book:The Last Usable Hour Source: The Last Usable Hour