Thursday, June 25, 2026

The House on the Lake

Philip Metres 1970 

How a house is a self & else, a seeping intoof light deciding the day. A house so closeit breathes as the lake breathes. 
How a lakeis a shelf, an eye, a species of seeing,
burbling of tongues completing the shore.
How a loon is a probing, a genus of dreams,
encyclopedia of summer. Unsummable houseby the lake, generous hinge opening us. 
I loved,in folds of sleep, to hear the back door’s yawn& click. 
You gliding down toward shore& dawn, beyond all frames, reconciling yourself tobracing Long Lake. Into its ever-opening, you—

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