Monday 18 April 2011

From "The Still Time" by Galway Kinnell

I know there is still time -
time for the hands
to open,
to be filled
by those failed harvests,
the imagined bread of the days of not having.

I remember those summer nights
when I was young and empty,
when I lay through the darkness
wanting, wanting,
knowing
I would have nothing of anything I wanted -
that total craving
that can hollow a heart out irreversibly.

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