Fist
by Philip Levine
Iron growing in the dark,
it dreams all night long
and will not work. A flower
that hates God, a child
tearing at itself, this one
closes on nothing.
Friday, late,
Detroit Transmission. If I live
forever, the first clouded light
of dawn will flood me
in the cold streams
north of Pontiac.
It opens and is no longer.
Bud of anger, kinked
tendril of my life, here
in the forged morning
fill with anything — water,
light, blood — but fill.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Омар Хайям – О друге я мечтал, но им не стал никто
- Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea by Walter Savage Landor
- Вероника Тушнова – Тропа, петляя и пыля
- The Water-Spring In The Leäne by William Barnes
- Matter For Gratitude poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Helmet by Philip Levine
- On Receiving A Curious Shell poem – John Keats poems
- To Ellen Terry poem – Alfred Austin
- October Journey by Margaret Walker
- Владимир Орлов – Дядя Миша на печи
- The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- God’s Work Ethics
- Passion Of My Heart by Stevens Cadet
- Стефан Малларме – Гробница Эдгара По
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Levine ( 1928 – 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012