TOXIC NOURISHMENT. By Michael Eigen London:  Karnac, 1999.  226 pp.: ECSTASY. By Michael Eigen Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2001.  100 pp.

Griefs1

I measure every grief I meet,

with analytic eyes.

I wonder if it feels like mine,

Or has an easier size.

I wonder if they bore it long,

Or did it just begin?

I could not tell the date of mine,

It feels so old a pain.

I wonder if it hurts to live,