Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks | ||||||||
All day I carry the stone, the last present of my dead. A cut-crystal water glass breaks against it. My lover's laughter shatters against its gray weight into rags of rain. All day people ask me for the stone, offer to throw it down a well, bury it, smash it with sledgehammers. But I cling to it, draw my face on it, dress it in baby clothes and weep when it won't nurse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STONE'S SECRET by MARGARET AVISON CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH NAMING FOR LOVE by HAYDEN CARRUTH OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE by ROBERT FROST THE EYE IN THE ROCK by JOHN HAINES THE HEAD ON THE TABLE by JOHN HAINES |
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