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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT CRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: The radiator taps like a frantic blind man Last Line: A crocheted cap for a stillborn baby. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The | |||
The radiator taps like a frantic blind man. Do not weep in the night. Please. Do not cry. Some dread lies furtive between blocks and clay - my sparrow heart, tell me that I too may sleep, but you only draw my hand against your face. Five stones into the river's current you know I am no shield against the cat claw of dream. I will only say it is not true, and you are uninterested in candied placebos. You release my hand. Allowing me to retreat, fatuous as my flowered robe, to my own darkness. You send my wraith to bed uncomforted, a crocheted cap for a stillborn baby. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND |
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