Poem Of Night Poem by Galway Kinnell

Poem Of Night

Rating: 3.0


1

I move my hand over
slopes, falls, lumps of sight,
Lashes barely able to be touched,
Lips that give way so easily
it's a shock to feel underneath them

The bones smile.

Muffled a little, barely cloaked,
Zygoma, maxillary, turbinate.

2

I put my hand
On the side of your face,
You lean your head a little
Into my hand--and so,
I know you're a dormouse
Taken up in winter sleep,
A lonely, stunned weight.

3

A cheekbone,
A curved piece of brow,
A pale eyelid
Float in the dark,
And now I make out
An eye, dark,
Wormed with far-off, unaccountable lights.

4

Hardly touching, I hold
What I can only think of
As some deepest of memories in my arms,
Not mine, but as if the life in me
Were slowly remembering what it is.

You lie here now in your physicalness,
This beautiful degree of reality.

5

And now the day, raft that breaks up, comes on.

I think of a few bones
Floating on a river at night,
The starlight blowing in a place on the water,
The river leaning like a wave towards the emptiness.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ahmad Shiddiqi 17 September 2009

very modern and innovative. keep writing! ! !

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Bernard F. Asuncion 25 May 2019

One of the best poems by Galway Kinnell.........................

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Edward Kofi Louis 25 May 2019

" Float in the dark" ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Michael Walker 25 May 2019

A love poem with a difference. Very modernist in tone and ideas. Brilliant.

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Kevin Patrick 25 May 2019

Surrealist with modernistic touches, an effortless work of true craftsmanship. top marks and to my favorites.

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Dr Antony Theodore 25 May 2019

I think of a few bones Floating on a river at night, The starlight blowing in a place on the water, The river leaning like a wave towards the emptiness. a very fine poem. tony

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Anil Kumar Panda 25 May 2019

A very nice poem indeed. 'I think of a few bones Floating on a river at night, The starlight blowing in a place on the water, The river leaning like a wave towards the emptiness. '...is very deep. Thanks for sharing.

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Kayode Are 25 May 2019

A cross between mystical appreciation and romantic pleasure.

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Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell

Providence, Rhode Island
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