Please help me find this poem

[lil]

I am being haunted by a poem I cannot find - maybe from Selected Poems (i no longer have a copy). The poem talks about sitting across the table from a woman who is now with another man & maybe has the line 'with your plans for the morning.' Would be most grateful for your help.

[Rob]

Hi Lil and welcome to the forum,

I am unable to locate the poem from the quote you made. If you can remember any other words type them into the search link below,

http://www.webheights.net/cohenconcordance/index.htm

Happy hunting.
Rob

[lil]

Thanks Rob,

I did try that but i must not be remembering clearly. i thought it was something like


there you sit
with your (something -green eyes, sweater?)
and your plans for the morning

Hmm.... perhaps she had also become beautiful because she was 'another man's woman'?

maybe I dreamt it. oh well a trip to the library is in order anyway.
some years ago, in a short lived fit of detachment, I sold all my dearest books - i suffer for it.

have a poetic day.

[lizzytysh]

some years ago, in a short lived fit of detachment, I sold all my dearest books - i suffer for it.

Do I know what you mean.............mine was music rather than books. Leonard hadn't entered my world yet, but I sure lost out on a ton of jazz and blues .

~ Lizzy

[Nathan]

Hi lil

Sounds like something from The Favourite Game, which would explain why you didn't get results in the Cohen Concordance, which I believe searches all Cohen's work besides that book.

[bc]

The poem is:


Another Man`s Woman

Now in the form of another man`s woman.
Sitting at our table.
Holding her cup in the morning light.
Saying: Into your life I will tangle one
whom you cannot approach
in order that you may refine your love for me.
Look at my beauty now.

It appears in the volume Death of a Lady`s Man.
The lines:

With your sweater and your coffee and your cigarette
and your plans for the morning

appear on the facing page at the conclusion of the original version headed: from the notebooks of 1973.