Collected Love Poems. Brian Patten

Apart Together in Her Bed We Lay

       The Heroine Bitches

       Vanishing Trick

       Towards Evening and Tired of the Place

       A Few Questions about Romeo

       The Wife

       The Outgoing Song

       News from the Gladland

       The Morning’s Got a Sleepy Head

       The Ice Maiden

       You Come to Me Quiet as Rain Not Yet Fallen

       The Tragedy

       The Cynic’s Only Love Poem

       You Missed the Sunflowers at Their Height

       The Want

       Waiting

       Amour

       Probably It Is Too Early in the Morning

       Forgetmeknot

       Reading Between Graffiti

       Embroidered Butterflies

       Near the Factory Where They Make the Lilac Perfume

       January Gladsong

       A Drop of Unclouded Blood

       You Have Gone to Sleep

       A Valentine

       Because There Were No Revelations at Hand

       End of Story

       The Likelihood

       Inessential Things

       The Recognition

       I Caught a Train that Passed the Town Where You Lived

       The Bee’s Last Journey to the Rose

       Letting Go

       I Tried to Find My Voice

       And Heart is Daft

       If Words Were More Her Medium than Touch

       Her Advice

       Bare Necessity

       Sometimes it Happens

       Meeting Again

       The Understudies

       Yes

       So Late in the Evening

       Autumn Joke

       Wound Cream

       When You Wake Tomorrow

       The Stolen Orange

       Hesitant

       Dear Thief

       I Have Changed the Numbers on My Watch

       An Obsession

       You Go into Town

       Whose Body Has Opened

       Her Coldness Explained

       Road Song

       The Word

       Tristan, Waking in His Wood, Panics

       Survivor

       Sleepy

       Don’t Ask

       Over All We Are a Shadow Falls

       The Shadow-Puppet’s Lament

       They’ve Heard about You

       April Morning Walk

       Fingers Have Bruised Your Skin the Way a Fallen Peach is Bruised

       Poem Written in the Street on a Rainy Evening

       That Dress, This Shirt