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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your loneliness and mine Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness | |||
Your loneliness and mine Added together Make one ingenuous loneliness. No one will believe this but you. When you were here it rained each night. Each morning found you Beached against me like an irrefutable ark. Vast, self-conscious island, You said with eyes closed. When you left, your pairs Of slight nocturnal sighs went with you. I listen to my ears ring now, The sound of me getting nowhere. Though I'm telling you there are mountains so distant It hurts to look. If there are two kinds of loving, As everybody thinks he knows, Two kinds of dying, Then one of each is easy, Like the sadness that weds us. There are two ways to be alone: One is filled with sunlight And the yellowing aspen turn it, by alchemy, Into themselves. 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...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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