Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE PANELS: A GIFT, by MARK IRWIN Poet's Biography First Line: He walked up to the winter and then into it Subject(s): Snow | ||||||||
He walked up to the winter and then into it with eyes open. He wanted to show how the writing of snow within snow, of nothing slipping through everything, shines. He moved among drifts, a pillowed world where the turns of desire were less dangerous though no less beautiful in that futureless, indistinct while. He moved through the individual rooms of snow as though they were parts of a house where others, gone, now waited, and he spoke to them through a kind of steeped sunlight, as the wind blew, and the quick was tall as it was long, and as he was laying the unsayable at your feet, you were shy about it at first, then wanted to polish it and leave, leave nothing, everything, and be gone. http://www.middlebury.edu/~nereview | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRIGHT SUN AFTER HEAVY SNOW by JANE KENYON SNOW FALLING THROUGH FOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE SNOW FAIRY by CLAUDE MCKAY NOT ONLY ESKIMOS by LISEL MUELLER THREE PANELS: GONE by MARK IRWIN |
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