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| Mark Strand |
Mark Strand was born on Canada's Prince Edward Island in 1934, and was
raised and educated in the United States and South America. He is both a former Poet Laureate of the United States and a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets...
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| The Coming of Light
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by Mark Strand |
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Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.
You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,
stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,
sending up warm bouquets of air.
Even this late the bones of the body shine
and tomorrow's dust flares into breath. |
Excerpted from The Story of Our Lives by Mark Strand. Copyright © 2002 by Mark Strand. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. |
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