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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN SICKNESS LIKE SLEEP, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poet's Biography
First Line: It is like this perhaps
Last Line: Will gather us into its shade
Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness
First Line: It is like this perhaps
Last Line: Will gather us into its shade
Subject(s): Sickness; Sleep; Illness
It is like this perhaps
That the great tree of darkness
(Of which we have seen only a few leaves --
Or, perhaps a few, its black flower)
Will gather us into its shade.
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
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