Pulitzer poet Kunitz dead at 100
Tue, 2006-05-16 10:22
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Pulitzer poet Kunitz dead at 100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4985400.stm
Requiem aeternum dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
this is just Beautiful - the first stanza of 'The Science Of The Night'
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you,
My careless sprawler,
And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused,
That have become the land of your self-strangeness.
What long seduction of the bone has led you
Down the imploring roads I cannot take
Into the arms of ghosts I never knew,
Leaving my manhood on a rumpled field
To guard you where you lie so deep
In absent-mindedness,
Caught in the calcium snows of sleep?