Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems

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Love on the StreetS Pitt Poetry Series Ed Ochester, Editor Love on the Streets S e L e c t e d a n d n e w P o e m S Sharon Doubiago University of Pittsburgh Press Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2008, Sharon Doubiago All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-6008-9 ISBN 10: 0-8229-6008-7 For Ryan Axel Darien Menez Bishara Doubiago For the poets It is the need to enter what we loosely call the vision to be one with the Imago Mundi, that image of the world we each carry within us as possibility itself. —robert cr eeLey The telling of our journeys is as much religion as the ceremonies themselves. —the hoPi We, one generation through thousands of lifetimes: women and men, who are more and more filled with the child we will bear. —r ainer mar ia r iLke But gods always face two-ways So let us search the old highways. —h. d. Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony. . . . —Percy bySShe SheLLey Yo hatch katchkani Manan yo hatch katchkani Chaimita tapukui ...