| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
The Poet: Galway Kinnell, “Another Night in the Ruins”
Friday, August 24, 2012 18:40
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.
“Another Night in the Ruins”
“How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren’t, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?”
“How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren’t, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?”
- Galway Kinnell
2012-08-24 18:30:31
Source:
