She lay so still that as she spoke a spider spun a seamless web upon her body as we spoke and then her limbs came loose one by one and so my own

From Thread, published by New Directions. Copyright © 2011 by Michael Palmer. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

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Poems by This Author

Company of Moths by Michael Palmer We thought it could all be found in The Book of Poor Text Dearest Reader by Michael Palmer He painted the mountain over and over again Eighth Sky by Michael Palmer It is scribbled along the body Sun by Michael Palmer Write this. We have burned all their villages Who Is to Say by Michael Palmer Who is to say

Further Reading

Dreams Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] by Christina Rossetti The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding] by Lyn Hejinian A Bedtime Story For Mr. Lamb by Arthur Nevis A Book Said Dream and I Do by Barbara Ras A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Bedside by William Olsen Counting by Douglas Goetsch Cradle Song by William Blake Darkness by George Gordon Byron Dear Tiara by Sean Thomas Dougherty Dream In Which I Meet Myself by Lynn Emanuel Dream of the Evil Servant by Reetika Vazirani Dream Song 1 by John Berryman Dream Variations by Langston Hughes Dreaming About My Father by Ed Ochester Flying by Sarah Arvio Grasshopper by Ron Padgett He Dreams of Falling by Ruth Ellen Kocher His Heart by Caroline Knox I am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins by Noelle Kocot I Might Have Dreamed This by Kirsten Dierking it was a dream by Lucille Clifton Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field Kristin's Dream In November by Bernadette Mayer Last by Maxine Scates Lullaby of an Infant Chief by Sir Walter Scott Making the Bed by Burt Kimmelman Nocturne by Wayne Miller O Little Root of a Dream by Paul Celan Our eunuch dreams by Dylan Thomas Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris Raven's Last Dream by Red Hawk Scarecrow on Fire by Dean Young The Dream of the Just by Dana Gelinas The Good-Morrow by John Donne The House by Richard Wilbur The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson The Sandman by Margaret Thomson Janvier The Sleepers by Walt Whitman The Song in the Dream by Saskia Hamilton The Tower by W. B. Yeats Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field