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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SATURN OVER PISGAH, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH First Line: Can you hear them tonight Subject(s): Passion; Saturn (planet) | |||
Can you hear them tonight, big sisters hissing in the void? Can you, in your dreams, while I explore the mysterious delta at the bend of your left knee? I know nothing but your breathing here on Pisgah's floor, our fire progressing to embers. Asleep, I can ask you now, Doesn't some part of us go on? Memory, regret, anger, pride -- what wheels will they turn? Your mercy, what loom? Last night, during the lunar eclipse, we saw Saturn through a borrowed scope, saw the toy beast for the first time. Saw Jupiter, too, tiny with its tiny moons lined up in a straight corner shot. Forty-five years it took me to focus, to feel Saturn alive inside me, cardboard rings transformed to golden ice, to stroke Jupiter's stormy face, whirling without us for a billion years. Asleep, I can ask you, How? Sometime between midnight and dawn, a light plane passes overhead, coals of a hundred campfires visible below. The plane banks slowly to the west. What will our passion become? Copyright © Stephen Knauth http://www.unl.edu/schooner/psmain.htm Prairie Schooner is a literary quarterly published since 1927 which publishes original stories, poetry, essays, and reviews. Regularly cited in the prize journals, the magazine is considered one of the most prestigious of the campus-based literary journals. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SATURN THROUGH A TELESCOPE by JEANNE EMMONS TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND by KAREN SWENSON SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE RECUERDO by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE MORAL FABLES: THE FOX, THE WOLF, AND THE CADGER by AESOP CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE by WILLIAM BASSE ASPIRATIONS: 8 by MATHILDE BLIND BIFURCATION by ROBERT BROWNING LINES WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER PARTING FROM A LADY by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES |
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