Galway Kinnell Poems on Light (3 Poems)

How Could You Not (Galway Kinnell Poem)

– for Jane kenyon It is a day after many days of storms. Having been washed and washed, the air glitters; small heaped cumuli blow across the sky; a shower visible against the firs douses the crocuses. We knew it … Continue reading →

Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair In The Moonlight (Galway Kinnell Poems)

1 You scream, waking from a nightmare. When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I … Continue reading →

Poem Of Night (Galway Kinnell Poem)

1 I move my hand over slopes, falls, lumps of sight, Lashes barely able to be touched, Lips that give way so easily it’s a shock to feel underneath them The bones smile. Muffled a little, barely cloaked, Zygoma, maxillary, … Continue reading →