A New Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

Author:Galway Kinnell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-02-08T04:40:25+00:00

and when Fergus

saw the pond for the first time

in the clear evening, saw its oldness down there

in its old place in the valley, he became heavier suddenly

in his bones

the way fledglings do just before they fly,

and the soft pine cracked...

I would not have heard his cry

if my electric saw had been working,

its carbide teeth speeding through the bland spruce of our time, or

scorching

black arcs into some scavenged hemlock plank,

like dark circles under eyes

when the brain thinks too close to the skin,

but I was sawing by hand and I heard that cry

as though he were attacked; we ran out,

when we bent over him he said, "Galway, Inés, I saw a pond!"

His face went gray, his eyes fluttered closed a frightening moment...

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