Selected Poems of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn

Author:Thom Gunn [Gunn, Thom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: classics, Fiction, Poems, Poetry
ISBN: 9780571330065
Google: VsexDgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0571327699
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2017-07-03T23:00:00+00:00

But I do clearly remember my last week,

when every detail brightened with meaning.

A boy was staying with (I would think)

his grandmother in the house opposite.

He was in his teens, from the country perhaps.

Every evening of that week

he sat in his white shirt at the window

– a Gothic arch of reduced proportion –

leaning on his arms, gazing down

as if intently making out characters

from a live language he was still learning,

not a smile cracking his pink cheeks.

Gazing down

at the human traffic, of all nations,

the just and the unjust, who

were they, where were they going,

that fine public flow at the edge of which

he waited, poised, detached in wonder

and in no hurry

before he got ready one day

to climb down into its live current.

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