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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS MOMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between a sea and a sea where the combers meet Last Line: Between a sea and a sea in the faint starglow? Subject(s): Time | |||
Between a sea and a sea where the combers meet in the cancellations of their endless breaking between a dream and a dream where the night arrests in eternal waking between two notes of a thracian song where the flute stops and an infinite stillness opens what is it where is it what and where oh sea and dream and song Will the blurred images surging ever fill the abyss toward which they flow Sighing in the long languid tango of their kiss will the lovers on that continually dying wave of sensation ever really know what they know their drift and their expiring between a sea and a sea in the faint starglow? Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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