An Explanation of America

ISBN-13: 9780691013602 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 80 str.

Robert Pinsky

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From An Explanation of America

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Robert Pinsky
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Inexhaustible, delicate, as if

Without source or medium, daylight

Undoes the mind; the infinite,
Empty actual is too bright,

Scattering to where the road

Whispers, through a mile of woods ...
Later, how quiet the house is:

Dusk-like and refined,

The sweet Phoebe-note
Piercing from the trees;

The calm globe of the morning,

Things to read or to write
Ranged on a table; the brain

A dark, stubborn current that breathes

Blood, a deaf wadding,
The hands feeding it paper

And sensations of wood or metal

On its own terms. Trying to read
I persist a while, finish the recognition

By my breath of a dead giant's breath--

Stayed by the space of a rhythm,
Witnessing the blue gulf of the air.