Selected Poems

					Jan Lee Ande
					Selected Poems


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						Instructions for Walking on Water "I Want to Live as a Magician" from Nimrod It is not easy to move about on this earth with crumpled wings, a fractured heart, my little bundle of tricks... "Nothing Is What It Seems to Be" from Mississippi Review Even when reading, strange things take place. Small gods turn up in the intricate details of punctuation. The ampersand says "the sign by itself is the word." The dots of ellipses gather together... "Last Rites" from Nimrod When I am dead, let my body rest for three days. Do not gather around me, weeping, gnashing your teeth and sighing, to pull my soul back into its abandoned bag of bones...

						Mystic in the Cloister manuscript in submission "Sabbatical" from Poetry International A few angels and archangels come here for the view, and the illusion of time ticking on its way... "After the Burning" from RUNES Once ashes had fallen from the sky like gray moth wings and settled onto branches brittle as ribs... "Corners of the Mouth" from Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets Her fingers loosen the warm musty smell of soil and untangled roots. Red chard raises veined hands in the wind... © Jan Lee Ande 2007