Now & Then by Robert Hass

Author:Robert Hass [Hass, Robert]
Language: fra
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593761462
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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146 Robert Hass / 1999

its drained tongue

as dead driftwood soaking the vein

as these words float up

out of body

in a joke sharpened in or sharpening

each myopic minute

met

and now dirtied up, or far too beautiful

for this

and now desperate for

the never would or could

or at least had not meant to mean). Pity the stirred.

So stormed out, as in exhausted, my eardrums left watching.

Each nerve, in the mood exhumed,

hissing, go away,

go away, night sky, did we come this far together?

I am cold. And in this next breath,

the same waking,

the same hauling of debris. I am

here in the skin of . . . otherwise) shoveling out, dryly

march 28

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins, an English Jesuit priest of the Victorian era who

spent much of his adult life in Ireland, is one of the great religious poets

in the English language. He is also—a somewhat different thing—a poet

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