This is one of my favorites from Berryman--I re-read him regularly--and now that NaPo is over (well, I'm giving up, anyway) I'll be back to posting regularly with ephemera and poems. During NaPo I read Berryman and Kim Addonizio and Maurice Manning and Rae Armantrout and Robin Blaser . Blaser's the only one I didn't really get into, but that may be a factor of my dipping into and out of his Collected at random instead of reading through conscientiously as I usually do. Dream Song 131: Come Touch Me Baby In His Waking Dream by John Berryman Come touch me baby in his waking dream disordered Henry murmured. I’ll read you Hegel and that will hurt your mind I can’t remember when you were unkind but I will clear that block, I’ll set you on fire along with our babies to save them up the high & ruined stairs, my growing daughters. I am insane, I think, they say & act so. But then they let me out, and I must save them, High fires will help, at this time, in my a...
Like the title says.