Kenneth Patchen Sky Poems
- 1. The Cloth Of The Tempest
These of living emanate a formidable light,
Which is equal to death, and when used
Gives increase eternally.
What fortifies in separate thought
... - 2. The Snow Is Deep On The Ground
The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
... - 3. Be Music, Night
Be music, night,
That her sleep may go
Where angels have their pale tall choirs
... - 4. Irkalla's White Caves
I believe that a young woman
Is standing in a circle of lions
In the other side of the sky.
... - 5. In The Footsteps Of The Walking Air
In the footsteps of the walking air
Sky's prophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe
And hillsides lift green wings in somber journeying.
... - 6. The Temple
To leave the earth was my wish, and no will stayed my rising.
Early, before sun had filled the roads with carts
Conveying folk to weddings and to murders;
Before men left their selves of sleep, to wander
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