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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery moves in god-like ways Subject(s): God; Mystery; Saxophones; Women | |||
Mystery moves in God-like ways Is one of many possibilities And may be why I'm here without you now. High clouds bruise and white peaks incarnadine. Slender tree of muliebrity would be another explanation. Prairie grass, seductive, luxuriates in amber. Some other Scraps of clouds the rain left behind Hunker down for the night in valleys. The fencepost's shadow leaps out across the plain Like the bejeezus Out of someone. The mirage becomes an oasis Is something it might have said. The first stars creep forward Like wild children coaxed from the woods. Love, then, was just a sweeter loneliness Than this, Though snowbroken aspen across the meadow Still catch the latest light like a grove Of saxophones, Like you said, Temporary, like eternity, Though once, And once again, Daylight held us on the tip of its tongue And forgot what it was saying. 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...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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