Showing posts with label "This Hour and What Is Dead". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "This Hour and What Is Dead". Show all posts

Jan 19, 2010

This Hour and What Is Dead by Li-Young Lee : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry.


This Hour and What Is Dead by Li-Young Lee : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry.

I've never had a brother, so I guess I keep coming back to this poem for other reasons.

Of course, it's another father poem as well as a brother poem. And here's the other side of that coin:

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor | My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke

I also don't know why the Wood Stork (left) seems like a relevant photo. Maybe I can imagine him as the shape of ghostly noise overhead, yet he'll stand/sit there in silence for a long, long time, drying his wings, like the anhinga.

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