Some Roethke to go with the pictures, from “O Thou Opening, Thou,” published in The Waking, 1953:
“The dark has its own light.
A son has many fathers.
Stand by a slow stream:
Hear the sigh of what is.
Be a pleased rock
On a plain day.
Waking’s
Kissing.
Yes.”
The “pleased rocks”–
The “slow stream”–
And, um, something else. But it also has bighorn sheep in the background! (I couldn’t find a poem that worked for this one.)
mr. isbell
January 24, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
yous are teh cutes!