Sample Poems from Tree In The Wall

by George Moore

We are very pleased to present two sample poems from Tree In The Wall by George Moore. This amazing collection is untitled, allowing you to enter it randomly and experience its bits at will.

Poem 1

• Lake water carries a thought backward as in rowing out into the unknown, a thought that recreates one note in long sleeping intervals among the reeds. Out on surfaces the world is in a kind of sleep a pulse calm in gravity, a reach beyond things. Distance changes our outlook, surface to deep transformations to surface again, where geese come in at long skims to settle. Lake and trees interpenetrate outwardly becoming, and what this is knows all and nothing without counsel.

Poem 2

• Search all you want, I say. Under the sunshade of needled trees, in the smooth canyons of turbulent streams, through damp muskeg plains of sphagnum moss and see what you find. There where I saw a hole in the sky universal night crept through and made itself known by impulse and instinct, steeped the scene in calm, so still the words were stains on the world's cortex and could not break through. Memory does that, incites us with its allegories of light, but what makes it luxurious at last is the sable pupil of the eye.