New and Collected Poems by Jay Parini

Author:Jay Parini [Parini, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3014-1
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

7. JULY

Here is the spark of heaven,

rising on the Fourth, the spangled night

of firefall flakes, the glitzy stars.

I let the pond uphold my spirits,

drunk with day’s long exaltations,

floating on the raft of fellow-feeling

as the children swarm in rings around me

and the rockets spray.

The universe expands to fill my chest,

an outward crackle, ribs uncaged,

my bird-heart flown to God-knows-where.

The birth of freedom is my theme tonight,

the crack of rifles,

no more king, no taxes from abroad,

and each hand counts.

We’ll tax ourselves from here on out.

We’ll make ourselves the only kings.

We’ll feed the people on the bread of truth.

We’ll raise the children to believe for sure

that every color is divinely lit,

that every stone is God’s own flint,

that free means free

not only here but there as well,

wherever in the world the star-flakes fall,

the moon is swelling,

and the ponds fill up and go on filling.

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