"The Whitsun Weddings" Quotes
A collection of poems that explores themes of love, marriage, and the human condition.
poetry | 46 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower / Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.
Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands / Like heat.
The wind blew all my wedding-day, / And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind.
Distance is no good: can’t forget / The swooping pain it has / That swooping pain, that swooping pain.
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes / Like New Orleans reflected on the water.
Our wedding presumes eternity.
And often he was sorry that he spoke, / And wished her spirit in hell.
The train runs on through wilderness / Of cities going to forever.
In meek obedience, firm / As his, my gaze returns / To what it never saw, / Blindingly pure and bleak.
An Odeon went past, a cooling tower, and / Someone running up to bowl.
