Index of First Lines

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I waken you out of your nightmare as I waken

I wanted to teach you the names of flowers

I want my funeral to include this detour

I was lowering my body onto yours

I was the philosopher watching a pair of butterflies

I wish that before you died

I would bring glass flowers to the broken marriage

I would have waited under the statue of Eros

I would lie down by you here, side by side.

—A found poem from the Index at the back of Michael Longley's "Collected Poems"