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My brother, yearling star
aloft in city haze,
fading and being sought
through the windshield of my car,
what are these nights and days?
What was it I caught
that disappears at dawn,
the glimmer of a thought
forgotten as I drive?
And what remains of love?
There is little left to own
or own up to in a life,
the outline of a leaf
against the early sun,
the catalogue of hours
unwritten anywhere,
a smear of earthly showers
that cannot clear the air.
My brother, yearling star,
I look for you everywhere.
(First appeared in The Yale Review,Vol. 95, No. 4) |
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David Mason's books include The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), The Country I Remember (winner of the Poetry Society of America's DiCastagnola Award), Arrivals, and a collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry. His verse novel, Ludlow, has just been published. With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. With the late John Frederick Nims he co-edited Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (fifth edition, 2005). And with Dana Gioia and Meg Schoerke he co-edited both Twentieth Century American Poetry and Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. His stories, poems, reviews, essays, and translations have appeared in many magazines around the world, including Harper's, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and The Yale Review. His work has been read on the air by Garrison Keillor, and he has been interviewed on various public radio outlets. He teaches at Colorado College and lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs with his wife, Anne Lennox, a photographer. |
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