Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE PANELS: A GIFT, by MARK IRWIN



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THREE PANELS: A GIFT, by                     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.

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