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THE HOUSE OF SLEEP
Elizabeth Bartlett
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To Paul
When you gave me a painting of hammocks,
I knew:
The dreamer tells the truth, the self awake
does not.
For years I raged against the images
you drew.
How they stared, gloomy shrouds, whenever I
forgot.
To rest, be still—I swore that was a way
of death.
Yet find more lives in sleep than I have years
ahead.
by
Elizabeth Bartlett
AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS
Colima, Mexico
1975
Copyright © 1975 by Elizabeth Bartlett
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this
book in whole or in part in any form.
First Edition
Acknowledgement: some of these poems have appeared in
The Virginia Quarterly
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Poems of Yes and No
Behold This Dreamer
Poetry Concerto
It Takes Practice Not to Die
Threads
Selected Poems
Twelve-Tone Poems
THE HOUSE OF SLEEP
It is a house with many doors,
no two alike.
I am at home in all its rooms
of time and place.
My changing person, gender, speech
hold no surprise.
I know who I am in my sleep,
behind my face.
If you ask which of them is false
and which is true
Enter the house with me and call,
I'll answer you.
Here inside the darkness,
the eye of light opens
As mind travels inward
to a fourth dimension.
There is no perspective
of other or outside.
Both obverse and reverse
are simultaneous
While past and present form
a folding wave that flows
Now backward, then forward
in one eternal dream.
I found it as a child,
a house that was all mine
Where I could think and be
whatever I believed.
Half of me stayed outside
on guard, aware of spies
The inner self went free
to wonder as it pleased.
Leaving the day behind,
I came upon the night
And there I dreamed of things
past all imagining.
Memory is no stranger
in the house of sleep.
It comes as a visitor
for a reunion.
If a private occasion,
with the family
Or else with those forgotten
who have long been gone.
The waiting house is ready
for us to gather.
Together or separately
our memories meet.
Waking in the night,
I have wondered where I am
Knowing I have been away
and not yet returned.
I lie still and wait
between absence and presence
Conscious of being witness
to my sleep and wake.
Here's body, inert,
prepared to revert to clay.
O wanderer with my lamp,
how dim grows the light.
Flying effortlessly
I escape gravity
And seaborne, breathe through gills
to swim past coral isles
Where I emerge on shores
that climb up ancient roads.
Always, my origins
enact some past within
Recalling elements
of former existence.
Save two, that I renounce:
bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground.
Here I need no clock
to tell me what time it is.
The day, season, year
conform to no calendar.
No compass or map
points my route or direction.
Sensation is all:
the shape and sound of feeling.
I learn what I think
by choice of symbols, meanings.
I invent my world
as much as it invents me.
A baton like a pendulum
swings back and forth.
Across the universe it moves
in perfect time
Leading an orchestra of stars
through measured space.
A score arranged with such grandeur,
I merely hear
Its echoes through the walls of sleep—
how faint, how far
While my heart beats to the rhythm
of earth's passage.
The twelve hours of the night
are paths between the stars.
Whichever one you take
leads to this centered house
If you speak the password
to those who guard the gates.
You must not look at them
or touch them on the way
Lest you be left alone
and hear the triple bark.
For the rest, safe journey
and sweet dreams until dawn.
How the bedtime refrain still echoes
through the house:
"Good night, sweet dreams, see you tomorrow."
Was it wish
Or something more substantial for child
to sleep on
Like a pillow filled throughout the night
with promise?
Which was kept and shall be kept in years
yet to come
When all the yesterdays that made me,
wake at dawn.
In genesis the dream began
and came to life
By dividing the form from void,
the dark from light
And parting the sea from dry land,
mother from child
Gave image its own reflection
by day and night
But kept the sleeping and waking
for seem and like
That the timeless and undying
remain in-sight.
Our dreamscape is a Mil Cumbres
across the years.
Peak after peak they rise like crests
above a sea
In which we plunge, swim, dive and drown
beneath each wave.
Yet breath returns and eyes grow clear
from time to time
As all stands still, becalmed, at rest,
and we can see
There, where we were. Here, where we are.
How far. Which way.
It was a garden of people
at all seasons.
I saw hands at work everywhere,
none of them still.
Some were planting new souls
in the fresh earth.
Others went about the weeding,
pruning, hoeing
Their baskets filled with human plants
of every kind.
While leaves, endless leaves kept falling
all around me.
Among the Joshua trees,
I saw a stone cross
Both claiming world salvation
from brush, sand and thorn
While I stood on a mountain,
waiting for the ark
To save me from destruction,
drowned by floods of sun.
But the fiery waves rose up
forty days and nights
And there was not a sign of
clouds, and no dove came.
A bird stopped me
as I started to walk across.
"You can not enter the circle,
you have no wings."
So I went back
and I looked for them on the earth.
But none of all the winged insects
knew where mine were.
So I went on
and I looked for them in the sea.
And the fish told me of angels
who looked like birds.
With this ring I thee wed,
said the moon, said the earth.
I saw it overhead,
a crystal band of ice
Through which the eye of God
bore witness once again
To living light and love
within the cosmic void.
I heard the vows exchanged
between the cold and dark
Then with my own, warm breath
I wed the night and slept.
Through the mirror and through the fog,
all things reverse.
I see the right side on the left,
the left side, right.
I see the shapes of what has been
behind, transposed.
A camera floats above my head
as dreams submerge.
A shadow moves beyond my feet
in backward stride.
The mirror and the fog are one,
and I, enclosed.
What was the Eskimo
doing in the tropics?
What was the Hottentot
doing in the arctic?
Caught between the two,
I asked what choice was mine?
Having to freeze or burn,
I felt, was too extreme.
Yet heart elected south
and brain elected north
Since a temperate zone
in heaven was no more.
I wanted to lift
the poor and ignorant soul
To feed and clothe it,
to give it eyes and ears.
I led it away
from hunger, cold and terror
Helping it to climb,
to trust my choice of freedom.
But when I let go,
the peak opened with wide jaws
For the slip, the fall—
and I grabbed the soul, and ran.
What shall I be,
I asked of Tarot cards and stars
That I might live
as fits my tastes, beliefs and cares?
First, be a prince,
with pleasures, treasures, all desires.
Then, be a priest,
with holy thoughts of love divine.
Third, a peasant,
with simple needs and natural ways.
Last, as poet,
combine the three—or curse your fate.
It looked like a mountain
with garden terraces
A holiday setting
and dazzling in sunshine
Where one could be at ease
to stroll and meet old friends
Exploring all the paths
unhurried by the years
Feeling the light within
increase with heightened joy
While going up and on
from terrace to terrace.
I went down
into the vaults of time's library
Down through sunless, airless corridors
staffed by ghosts.
Down the winding halls and cobbled stairs
daubed with earth
Past the rows
of book graves in a cemetery
Of old words,
until I came to the last, first one
When I heard a rumble, saw a flash
and woke dumb.
I followed God
until he stopped at a crossroads.
On the one side
was a cliff high above the sea.
On the other,
a dense woods baited with summer.
Future unknown,
I asked which way was I to go?
He pointed left,
where the sun bowed low in the west.
And God, I asked?
To the right, he said and vanished.
It was a long road through a fog
that swirled like clouds
And many were going with me,
behind, ahead
Though no one spoke or stopped, moved past
or turned aside.
But when we reached the edge of time,
I grew afraid
Until one found me there and smiled
and took my hand
Then led me step by step again,
a little child.
First, the night came to me
in the shape of a moth.
With a soft flick like breath,
its wing-tips grazed my head.
Then, from a hollow tree,
a hoot owl mourned its cry
And as I turned to look,
I thought the moon turned, too.
Beyond the road, a skunk.
Within my room, a rose.
So I sat up, I think,
while the night spoke and spoke.
I hear the word incessantly
as a chorus
A word whose voices are composed
of all my years
Like a requiem long rehearsed
in every key
And begun the day of my birth,
inside of me
A word sung for my soul's repose
while I am here
An earthling, bent on a journey
still amorphous.
How to find the way back
by subway, streetcar, bus...
Can a hill disappear
or the stream in a park?
The morning's scent of rolls,
the sound of skates at dusk
Laundry roofs, coalbin chutes,
wagons, carts, iron stoops...
Like footprints in the snow,
the memories fall and drift.
I walk, I look, I ask,
a shadow in the past.
I ran to say goodbye
to the last railway train
Whose old, musty freight cars
were creaking at the joints.
In it, tons of paper,
unpublished manuscripts
Heading for the graveyard
like passengers turned ghosts.
At the rear, an organ,
installed in the caboose
Began the slow, slow march,
while the wind mourned and blew.
O most blessed and damned of women,
so greatly loved!
I know by my dreams that your own
have never died.
Before there was Egypt or Troy,
you were a slave.
Before Tristram or Abelard,
your face was pale.
While poets made heaven and hell
to prove your charms
Your passion, beauty, grief and joy
slept in my arms.
With all that space to explore,
how could I resist?
Finding my own place out there,
the wonder of it!
A stretched canvas came in view,
linen, framed in gold
With a palette never used,
meant for me alone.
I dipped my brush and painted
the place I loved best
Then forever set my claim:
north, south, east and west.
I had to go on and on,
the search was not done.
Winding corridors,
walls leading from door to door.
Mice, lions, sheep, chickens, frogs,
unassorted odds.
Nothing suited—quite—
despite the resemblances.
I heard voices, laughter, groans,
sounds foreign to mine.
Mirrors, symbols, signs...
twice, I almost found myself.
The room was full of eyes,
whichever way I looked.
Over walls, ceiling, floor,
they darted back and forth
Their eyelash hands and feet
mocking me and my book.
"You can not get away,
I've told you that before."
Daddy longlegs reaching,
still haunting, still speaking.
"A spider ghost, you say?
The harvest comes, daughter."
They tossed the pillow
from one hand to the other.
With roars of laughter,
it zipped, it flew, was caught and thrown.
My seams ripped open,
scattering my heart outside.
Slowly, painfully,
I gathered it together
And lay down to sleep,
clutching my life, my pillow.
Feathers of dead birds,
sterile echoes of lost flights.
A bill collector appeared,
flourishing old bills.
"Your father gone, and mother,
who will pay for these?"
I turned to the telephone,
one disconnected.
I looked inside the mailbox,
full of dead letters.
I searched through files and desk drawers,
all bankbooks cancelled.
Only one thing left to do—
to wake, and escape.
It was a lettuce morning,
crisp in pale sunlight.
By noon it was canary,
cat's eye and corn grain.
As shadows crept through the hills,
the sea turned bilious.
Dusk spilled a goodbye tunnel
down a shifting sky.
Then driftwood, fuming the air
with its smoke and cough.
After night crashed, we picked up
plans for tomorrow.
When will the words be opened
and the book unsealed?
Not till the time of the end
of empires and beasts.
Then will the dream be written
according to men?
Not till the signs and vision
have become as one.
How shall we learn to know them
as true evidence?
Not till all human senses
merge with light again.
They were gone for days,
the hunters and fishermen
Challenging the beasts
who claimed the land and the sea.
The young sang their praise
all through the gloried summer
While the women danced
and gave them welcoming feasts.
How their deeds warmed us
winter nights! how bright the blaze!
Now, we are fearful
and cold. We need more old men.
I turned back
the thick, heavy calendar of years
Laboring,
page by century by page of scroll
To restore
the undiscovered new world once more
Hoping to
reverse the winds and tides, west to east
To exchange
the ships, the crews, the conquests and all.
But gained what
by throwing Columbus overboard?
Shakespeare and Cervantes
died the same day and year.
So too Diogenes
and Great Alexander
Although each said farewell
in places far apart.
What extinguished both flames
at one instant of time?
A whirlwind in the night
or a merciful rain?
May a storm at my death
help me find my partner.
All of us who saw it from the ground
testified
It was the tortoise that fell and killed
Aeschylus.
So Christ, Socrates, Galileo
were killed, too.
We, the groundlings who witnessed their deaths,
swear to you
It was the tortoise each time. It fell
from the air.
Some say eagles, by letting them fall.
But who knows?
I watched his clay flesh
take its changing form from thought
And fling the fiction
of his birth-by-chance to scorn.
Science, he would say,
is another way of life...
Without a flutter
or doubt to betray his eyes.
Such utter belief,
I found it hard to resist
Suspending my own—
he holds his world with such ease.
Then she who had been my wise teacher
in the past
Came and stood at the foot of my bed,
calling, "Child...
I have come to say goodbye to you
at long last
For I join The Great Intelligence
this same night
There, where the substance of all shadows
is pure light..."
Which vanished, as I wept in the dark,
blind and wild.
Not too much light left,
I collect the candle's tears.
Prodigal before
of the sun and its seasons
Now I search the night
for glowworms or gleams of snow.
Asleep open-eyed,
I turn my wax world slowly
Around a lifetime
of continents and oceans
Till the last star shrinks,
then shudders, and then goes out.
I saw it emptied
room by room and piece by piece
Until the house stood vacant
of all but its bones.
No paintings, no books,
no flowers, fruits or music.
A silence anonymous
as space void of time.
"Wait," my body cried,
"do not board up the windows!
"The owner left a message:
she's coming home soon."
Because I longed
to comprehend the infinite
I drew a line
between the known and unknown
From zero base
to its apex point opposite
Thus dividing
all past time from all future time
And all of space,
the positive from negative.
Where both sides met,
they formed the infinite present.
I saw the church bend its steeples,
ears to the ground
Then place its pulpit on the roof
to speak to God
Proclaiming the kingdom of men
at last had come
Who gave each day its daily bread,
whose will was done
That none be tempted to trespass
or do evil
Seeing the power and glory
on earth, fulfilled.
I am not one.
Among the many I am part.
I do not know
how many or who, where they are.
Each has a name,
a face, an age—none of them mine.
Yet are we all
cells of the selfsame root in time.
No closer ties
bind us to those we call our own.
For we are one,
living each other's lives, unknown.
The sign said City of Dogs
and I went inside.
The streets, laid out as kennels,
were strangely quiet.
Posted German Shepherd guards
merely curled their lips
And growled as I passed by them
into the main office.
The huge picture startled me.
Nothing else was there.
Only Big Brother, the Chief,
who looked down and stared.
Why, with so much obsidian,
coal, pitch and tar
Was it so hard, I ask of God,
to make black black
Or, given milk, snow, lilies, pearls,
to make white white?
Yet nowhere is there creature found
to have black bones
Or, among the many species,
one with white blood.
I could question other colors:
yellow, red, brown?
I see them,
a standing army six million strong.
They are armed
with the weapons of our memory.
On all fronts,
they keep watch, to warn and remind us.
At our call,
they rise from the graveyard of our minds
And advance,
immune to hunger, guns, barbed wire, gas...
Their mission:
to rescue time from its own worst foe.
I know them, the assassins,
by the way they breathe
As they slip behind the wheel
to strangle the road
As they dive-bomb through the air
to explode the night.
I hear the changing rhythms
of their pulse, speech, steps
As they finger the trigger,
as they grasp the knife.
I clock the surge of passions
in their race with death.
Outside the house
were beggars, thugs, maniacs, thieves.
An alien world
as perceived through curtained windows.
Seen from afar,
the fires, riots, car wrecks, brawls
Made me recoil
and threatened the night while I slept.
Nor found I joy
in revels, circuses and feats
My skin thin, too,
for the rocks, the drums, the stampedes.
They came marching by the billions,
armies of ants.
From woods and fields, on roads and streets,
through walls, roofs, stairs
An all-out attack on V-Day,
V versus man.
Fire ants, flyers, drivers, cutters
for ground, sea, air.
Overrunning, overcoming,
world-wide, as planned.
Timed to the hour and minute,
none of us spared.
I spoke to God and Devil,
waiting for reply.
I whispered into both ears,
having seen two sides.
I told of men and women,
of youth and of age
Of joy, love, goodness, beauty,
and their counterface.
Each question and emotion
met with silent dread.
One listened to the living
and one, to the dead.
Butterfly wings, a pair of lungs,
a bivalve shell.
I see the M and W
traced on my palms.
Maple keys, antlers, feathers, ferns,
the tails of fish.
The one design repeats itself
in endless halves.
Mountain to valley, spring to fall,
high tide to low.
We are each other's counterpart,
together, whole.
Map in hand,
I studied the surfaces and depths
Of the land
assigned to me for exploration.
Flesh engraved,
the contours clearly showed the main routes
Time had paved
for me to follow by sun and stars.
Whether eyes
misread the signs or feet betrayed me
All the skies
my palms enclosed led far out to sea.
1
Evenings on cobbled streets
leading down to the wharves
Where boys matched oars with men,
straining pride and muscle
Their boats nosing the wind
to catch the next tide's run.
But it was not fish food
I hungered for, or proof
As I walked back each time,
the youngest son of five
With alien eyes and thoughts
reaching out to starboard.
2
There was no goodbye
that last night, no righteous words.
I left silently
with no one to look at me
But my own shadow,
the wind lifting my footsteps
Down stone passageways,
lantern, pack and gear in hand.
Until, there it was,
riding at anchor, far out.
I paused a moment
and then ran, homeless, from home.
3
Always a convoy
for the long sea voyages
The ship like a whale
or a shark with pilot fish
The hills receding
as our masts climbed up the sky
And I knew it would be weeks
before we returned
Though we had strong sails, good winds
and plenty of hands.
Yet I never can recall
the last trip of all.
4
I remember the islands
flashing in the sun
Mostly barren rocks
and slopes of tattered vineyards
The waterfronts deserted
except by seabirds
No one to trade with
and our vessel filled with jars.
So we headed past the coast
toward open ocean
Where strange crews hailed us,
and for honey, gave us salt.
5
Then came fever
and all the sick were put ashore.
We had good care:
warm milk, vinegar baths and beds.
When my head cleared,
there was a road along the cliffs
Which I followed
past the village behind the goats
Feeling the ground
steady and true for a good house.
Until sunset,
when I saw the sea flowing west.
6
So I left that past
and shipped into the future
A boy born on land
with sea legs, a strange creature
Neither fish nor fowl,
yet something of each, between.
My head at the bow,
my feet at the stern, who dreamed
Whose ribs creaked and strained
to outride wind, tide and stars.
Blood of the sailor,
a part of me forever.
"Her poems give one a sense of intelligence and sensibility."
Wallace Stevens.
"Her work is clear, swift, and strong."
Mark Van Doren
"Her poems assuredly justify the writer, and should
console the right reader (if anything can)."
Marianne Moore
"I like her poems; they think, and they mean what they say."
Conrad Aiken
"Certainly impressive work."
Kenneth Rexroth
"Mature, her poems have a bite to them."
Richard Eberhart
"The new form is most interesting; the poems beautiful
and distinguished."
Allen Tate
The poems in this book are written in a new form—they are called twelve-tone poems. The form was adapted by the author from Arnold Schoenberg's musical system, using speech sounds in place of notes.
This autographed edition is limited to 100 copies, designed and illustrated by Paul Bartlett. The poems are set in Regal 14 type on Westland stock. Printed by Impresora Gutenberg, Colima, Mexico.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Bartlett (1911-1994) was an American poet and writer noted for her lyrical and symbolic poetry, creation of the new twelve-tone form of poetry, founder of the international non-profit organization Literary Olympics, Inc., and known as an author of fiction, essays, reviews, translations, and as an editor. She is not to be confused with the British poet (1924-2008) of the same name. For more detailed information about her life, work, and critical commendations, see the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bartlett_%28American_poet%29.
Bartlett's most notable achievements include:
* Creation of a new form of poetry, "the twelve-tone poem," adapting Arnold Schoenberg's musical system to the verbal, accented sounds of language. Called "the Emily Dickinson of the 20th Century," her concise lyrics have been praised by poets, musicians, and composers alike.
* Publication of 16 books of poetry, a group of edited anthologies, and more than 1,000 poems, short stories, and essays published, for example, in Harper's, Virginia Quarterly, New York Times, North American Review, Saturday Review, Prairie Schooner, and in numerous international collections.
* Recipient of many fellowships, grants and awards, including NEA, PEN Syndicate, fellowships at the Huntington Hartford Foundation, Montalvo, Yaddo, MacDowell, Dorland Mt. Colony and Ragdale, travel grants, and honors for introducing literature as part of the Olympics.
* Founder of the Literary Olympics, to restore literature, specifically poetry, as a vital part of the Olympics as it once had been in ancient Greece.
Bartlett's poetry came to the attention of leading poets, writers, and critics as diverse as Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Mark Van Doren, Conrad Aiken, Allen Tate, Alfred Kreymborg, Robert Hillyer, Louis Untermeyer, Rolfe Humphries, John Ciardi, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, Robert M. Hutchins, Kenneth Rexroth, William Stafford, and others. Over the years, Bartlett maintained an active and extensive correspondence with eminent poets, writers, and literary critics; evident throughout this collected literary correspondence are strong statements attesting to the importance of her work. Extensive permanent collections of Elizabeth Bartlett's papers, literary correspondence, publications, unpublished manuscripts, and art have been established, one as part of the Archive for New Poetry maintained by the Mandeville Department of Special Collections at the University of California, San Diego, and the second by the Rare Books Collection of the University of Louisville. Bartlett's readings of her poetry have been recorded for the Library of Congress, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and other collections.
Bartlett's twelve-tone form of poetry was introduced in her book, Twelve-Tone Poems, published in 1968. In Bartlett's words: "The 12-tone poem is a new form.... It was inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's musical system. The poem consists of 12 lines, divided into couplets. Each couplet contains 12 syllables, using the natural cadence of speech. The accented sounds of the words are considered tones. Only 12 tones are used throughout the poem, repeated various times. As a result, the poem achieves a rare harmony that is purely lyrical, enriching its imagery and meaning."
About this work, Allen Tate wrote: "The new form is most interesting, the poems quite beautiful and distinguished." Encouraged by this and other commendatory responses to her twelve-tone poems by poets, musicians, and composers including Stephen Sondheim, Bartlett continued to develop the new form. The House of Sleep, published in 1975, was the result, consisting of 62 poems related to dreams and written in the new form. Of these poems, William Stafford wrote: "There is a trancelike progression in these poems, in which all unfolds quietly, with a steady holding of a certain pervasive tone." Robert M. Hutchins wrote: "I am much impressed. The poems seem to me what is called an important contribution, and a beautiful one."
A third collection of twelve-tone poems, In Search of Identity, was published in 1977, further establishing the diversity and versatility of ways in which Bartlett was able to make use of the new form. A fourth collection of twelve-tone poems was published in 1981, Memory Is No Stranger.
Her husband, Paul Alexander Bartlett (1909 – 1990) was an American writer, artist, and poet. He made a large-scale study of more than 350 Mexican haciendas, published novels, short stories, and poetry, and worked as a fine artist in a variety of media. For more detailed information about his life and work, see the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_Bartlett.
Elizabeth Bartlett's son, Steven James Bartlett (1945 – ), is a psychologist and philosopher who has many published books and articles in the fields of philosophy and psychology. For more detailed information about his life and work, see the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_James_Bartlett.
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