Sunday, March 6, 2011

Struck for the Morning World

This curious riddled dream I dreamed last night,--
Six years ago I dreamed it just as now;
The same man stooped to me; we rose from bondage,
And broke the accustomed order of our days,
And struck for the morning world, and light, and freedom.
What does it mean? Why is this hint repeated?
What anguish does it spring from, seek to end?


from poem "Palimpsest: The Deceitful Portrait"
in Selected Poems

1 comment:

  1. It STRUCK me as I read this to replace the word 'morning' with the word 'mourning'. It kinda made sense, too.

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