Edward Hirsch Body Poems
- 1. After A Long Insomniac Night
I walked down to the sea in the early morning
after a long insomniac night.
... - 2. To Poetry
Donâ??t desert me
just because I stayed up last night
watching The Lost Weekend.
... - 3. Poor Angels
At this hour the soul floats weightlessly
through the city streets, speechless and invisible,
astonished by the smoky blend of grays and golds
seeping out of the air, the dark half-tones
... - 4. The Widening Sky
I am so small walking on the beach
at night under the widening sky.
The wet sand quickens beneath my feet
and the waves thunder against the shore.
... - 5. The Skokie Theater
Twelve years old and lovesick, bumbling
and terrified for the first time in my life,
but strangely hopeful, too, and stunned,
definitely stunned-I wanted to cry,
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