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Make a World: A Bulwark Against Despair


Article # : 12027 

Section : THE ARTS
Issue Date : 12 / 1987  303 Words
Author : William Bronk
William Bronk, considered one of America's finest poets today, won the 1982 American Book Award for Poetry.

       Winter Vocative
       
       Broken sky-mirror,
       blue-shadowed snow,
       June is far now,
       
       hold while you can;
       show bare of branch
       stark of stalk:
       
       ache us to know.
       
       
       Out There
       
       I have laughed with the mind, sometimes hard
       and with ugly dismissal, how its last conclusions rot out
       initial bases or tight lock up the mind
       in a cage it cannot escape from and is held there.
       
       But I accede; knowledge is what I am freed
       from, as once I was freed from power, not
       having any. Knowledge and power are what
       we want until we find, at last, they are not.
       
       There is a state outside of me, too, without
       these things. Reality? The God? I apply
       to it. It has my reverence and awe, my love. ... (2000 of 1580 Characters)
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