Guess What I’ve Been Reading?

More Mark Strand, of course. This is from Dark Harbor, and is notable not only for a non-silly use of “alas” in a modern poem, but also the inspired choice of “compassionate” to describe the wind.

“Is it you or the long, compassionate wind
that whispers in my ear, ‘Alas, alas’?”

(The whole section is worth posting. Maybe tomorrow.)