Galway Kinnell Poems on Sleep (3 Poems)

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 →

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (Galway Kinnell Poem)

For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash, but let there … Continue reading →