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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I KNOW, I REMEMBER, BUT HOW CAN I HELP YOU, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Recitation by Author Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The northern lights. I wouldn't have noticed them Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; Hay & Haymaking; Northern Lights | |||
The northern lights. I wouldn't have noticed them if the deer hadn't told me a doe her coat of pearls her glowing hoofs proud and inquisitive eager for my appraisal and I went out into the night with electrical steps but with my head held also proud to share the animal's fear and see what I had seen before a sky flaring and spectral greenish waves and ribbons and the snow under strange light tossing in the pasture like a storming ocean caught by a flaring beacon. The deer stands away from me not far there among bare black apple trees a presence I no longer see. We are proud to be afraid proud to share the silent magnetic storm that destroys the stars and flickers around our heads like the saints' cold spiritual agonies of old. I remember but without the sense other light-storms cold memories discursive and philosophical in my mind's burden and the deer remembers nothing. We move our feet crunching bitter snow while the storm crashes like god-wars down the east we shake the sparks from our eyes we quiver inside our shocked fur we search for each other in the apple thicket -- a glimpse, an acknowledgment it is enough and never enough -- we toss our heads and say good night moving away on bitter bitter snow. 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...NORTHERN LIGHTS by EINAR BENEDIKTSSON AN AURORA BOREALIS; ROSLIN CASTLE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK AN AURORA BOREALIS by GEORGE CROLY NORTHERN LIGHTS by WILLIAM JAY SMITH NORTHERN LIGHTS by CARROLL RYAN THE NORTHERN LIGHTS by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR NORTHERN LIGHTS by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' by HAYDEN CARRUTH A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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