“I put my mouth”
Philip Larkin * Track #11 On Collected Poems
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"I put my mouth" by Philip Larkin
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The poem “I put my mouth” is the thirteenth poem from Philip Larkins 1945 poetry collection The North Ship first published by Fortune Press
“I put my mouth” Annotated
I put my mouth
Close to running water:
Flow north, flow south,
It will not matter,
It is not love you will find.
I told the wind:
It took away my words:
It is not love you will find,
Only the bright-tongued birds,
Only a moon with no home.
It is not love you will find:
You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.