Informed by his political radicalism and sense of cultural responsibility, Hayden Carruth is the author of more than thirty books, most recently Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems... More >
The great poems of
our elders in many
tongues we struggled
to comprehend who
are now content with
mystery simple
and profound you
in the night your
breath your body
orbit of time and
the moment you
Phosphorus and
Hesper a dark circle
of fertility so
bloodthirsty for us
you in the world
the night breathing
asleep and alive.
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