where the child's eyes glaze with memory where the man's glaze with foreknowledge and how they darken and alter to vacancy as when the shifting breeze ramps like a closing shutter on the deeplighted bay look in the woman's eyes bravely in her moment of rapture when the skies loom between her lashes or look there in the mirror at those eyes bend closer and closer still look in the black pupils where other eyes appear and in them others infinitely infinitely pools of incomprehension look the fear is nothing look the courage nothing the song has no consequence look look it is here nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing. 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...A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE BLACK MAMMY by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE MARRIAGE (1) by TIMOTHY LIU AQUATINT FRAMED IN GOLD by AMY LOWELL STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 5. MARYLAND by CLARENCE MAJOR DOMESDAY BOOK: IRMA LEESE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM MARION REEDY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |