Poetry Circle of the Air: Stanley Kunitz
June 18, 2006 Sunday 2PM CT
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Bring your summer solstice poems to the Poetry Circle of the Air when Jean Feraca and Molly Peacock celebrate the poetry of the late Stanley Kunitz, renowned poet and master gardener, on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders.
Guest
- Molly Peacock, author of "Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems," and the creator of the one-woman show, "The Shimmering Verge," based on her poetry
Sample Poem by Stanley Kunitz: Touch Me
Summer is late, my heart.
Words plucked out of the air
some forty years ago
when I was wild with love
and torn almost in two
scatter like leaves this night
of whistling wind and rain.
It is my heart that's late,
it is my song that's flown.
Outdoors all afternoon
under a gunmetal sky
staking my garden down,
I kneeled to the crickets trilling
underfoot as if about
to burst from their crusty shells;
and like a child again
marveled to hear so clear
and brave a music pour
from such a small machine.
What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.
The longing for the dance
stirs in the buried life.
One season only,
and it's done. So let the battered old willow
thrash against the windowpanes
and the house timbers creak.
Darling, do you remember
the man you married? Touch me,
remind me who I am.
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