Goodbye, Galway Kinnell . . . . You mattered to me. WAIT Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Havent they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events will become interesting again. Hair will become interesting. Pain will become interesting. Buds that open out of season will become interesting. Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old. Wait. Dont go too early. Youre tired. But everyones tired. But no one is tired enough. Only wait a little and listen. Music of hair, Music of pain, music of looms weaving all their loves again. Be there to hear it, it will be the only time, most of all to hear, the flute of your whole existence, rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion. https://facebook/video.php?v=10203517876011373&set=vb.1348376890&type=3&theater nytimes/2014/10/30/books/galway-kinnell-poet-who-went-his-own-way-dies-at-87.html
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:12:11 +0000
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