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Bleak Your Welcome
- Northwestern University Press
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✦ 74 ✦ Bleak Your Welcome Bleak your welcome, bleak I came. I could barely even move. You were silent as the grave, Eyes upon the ceiling glued. You remained as mute as wood. I kept reaching out from hell. If your lips are locked for good, Hang one on your door as well. No, don’t bar the entryway. If your heart is sealed so tight, Lock the great wide world away, It was you that gave it light. Then I’ll know that I must draw Down across this brow a beam, Pressing at your shuttered wall, Barricaded tight with grief. Then this earth itself I’ll shun, Having seen far down the lane Ashes on a fettered sun, Rotting springtimes under chain. Don’t deceive my soul, I plead, Numb it, veil it, bar its way. Like the dewy mist it seeps Through the mounds of glistening hay. ✦ 75 ✦ If the mouse-infested shed Yellows under midday skies, Let the naked truth be said: Only love’s false witness lies. ...