The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright

Author:James Wright [Wright, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9780819569844
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Their wings shine in the searchlights

Of bare fields,

In Spain.

IN MEMORY OF A SPANISH POET

Take leave of the sun, and of the wheat, for me.

MIGUEL HERNANDEZ, written in prison, 1942.

I see you strangling

Under the black ripples of whitewashed walls.

Your hands turn yellow in the ruins of the sun.

I dream of your slow voice, flying,

Planting the dark waters of the spirit

With lutes and seeds.

Here, in the American Midwest,

Those seeds fly out of the field and across the strange

heaven of my skull.

They scatter out of their wings a quiet farewell,

A greeting to my country.

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