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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SEE THE STARS IN DAYLIGHT, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have to go down / in a deep mine-shaft or a well Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Stars | |||
You have to go down in a deep mineshaft or a well, down where you can imagine the incomparable piety of the schoolbus, the wherewithal of bees, down where you can be a drawer full of dust as night comes on under full sail, and the smooth rain, in its beautiful armor, stands by forever. I believe there's a fiddle in the wings whose music is full of holes and principles beyond reason. It binds our baleful human hearts to wristwatches and planets, it breaks into fragments which are not random. The girl in the white dress kneels by the riverbank and, like the willow, leans and trails her fingers in the current. She doesn't know about the damselfly, exquisitely blue, that has fallen asleep on her pillow. 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...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HYMN TO THE STARS by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN WESTERN CIVILIZATION by JAMES GALVIN A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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