Collected Love Poems
BRIAN PATTEN
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These Songs Were Begun One Winter
Through All Your Abstract Reasoning
Doubt Shall Not Make an End of You
After Rimbaud’s Première Soirée
Now They Will Either Sleep, Lie Still, or Dress Again
When She Wakes Drenched from Her Sleep
It is Time to Tidy Up Your Life
The Innocence of Any Flesh Sleeping
The Assassination of the Morning
A Creature to Tell the Time By
And Nothing is Ever as Perfect as You Want It to Be
Somewhere Between Heaven and Woolworth’s
At Four O’Clock in the Morning