Collected Poems by May Sarton

Author:May Sarton [Sarton, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-7436-9
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2014-02-25T16:16:00+00:00

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A weightless traveler, I too come back

From miles of air, from distant and strange lands,

Put on my house again, my work, my lack,

And looking down at my own clumsy hands,

Feel courage crack.

How can I answer all these needs at once?

Letters and friends and work and flowers?

They sweep me back in their devouring glance

To carry off my calm and hoarded powers

In a huge pounce.

That heavy thickness as of new-mown hay

Flung down in heaps over a tentative fire—

How lift my smothered flame up to the day?

Have I come back depleted of desire,

To tire and fray?

At last I hear the silence in the room:

The buried self is breaking through to be,

And Lazarus is calling me by name.

At last I slowly lift the poem free,

One-pointed flame.

I hear, “to live as one already dead”—

A voice heard in Japan long months ago.

The sweat of muga starts on my forehead.

It is the sweat poets and dancers know,

In joy and dread.

Images flow together in that heat,

And confused numbers thread a single line.

Detached from all except the living beat,

I dance my way into complex design

On weightless feet.

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