from Passing Through: The
Later Poems, New and Selected by Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 1995)
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(For help, see a note about the audio.) Also by Stanley Kunitz: King of the River; The Quarrel; Touch Me. Go to "A Visionary Poet at Ninety" in the June, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
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Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets over the humps of the honeybees; this morning I saw light kiss the silk of the roses in their second flowering, my late bloomers flushed with their brandy. A curious gladness shook me.
So I have shut the doors of my house,
I can scarcely wait till tomorrow Copyright © 1995 by Stanley Kunitz. All rights reserved. Used by permission. from Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (W. W. Norton, 1995) |
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