A Philip Levine Collection


Title:  Pili's Wall
Printing:  1986 Edition
Year of publication:  1971
Publisher:  Unicorn Press
City:  Greensboro, North Carolina
Number of Pages:  17
Cover:  paperback
Comments:  The 1986 edition was published in 500 copies.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:  72-134741
ISBN:  0-87775-125-0

Table of Contents:
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII
  • VII
  • IX
  • X

cover of 1986 edition


I

Why me?

From this small hill
the river flows in March.
The soil gives grudgingly
grass, thyme, poppies,
thistles, cactus,
an olive grove climbing
the far hill, a row
of cedars shading the river.
What more?
A hobbled burro munching,
a she goat crying
for her young
who come crashing through
the tortured cannon

What more?