Selected Poems of John Updike by John Updike

Author:John Updike [Updike, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

The world is still wonderful. Wisps of mist

were floating off your old hill yesterday,

the hill where you lived, in sight of the course

where I played (badly) in a Senior Men’s

Four-Ball in the rain, each green a mirage.

I thought of us, abed atop that hill,

and of how I would race down through your woods

to my car, and back to my life, my heart

enormous with what I newly knew—

the color of you naked, the milk of your sighs—

through leaves washed to the glisten of fresh wounds.

What desperate youthful fools we were, afraid

of not getting our share, our prize in the race,

like jostling marathoners starting out,

clumsy but pulsingly full of blood.

You dropped out, but we all drop out, it seems.

You never met my jealous present wife;

she hates this poem. The living have it hard,

not living only in the mind, but in

the receding flesh. Old men must be allowed

their private murmuring, a prayer wheel

set spinning to confuse and stay the sun.

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