Wednesday, November 09, 2016
The Sun Rises in Spite of Everything
Derek Mahon, "Everything is Going to be All Right," Selected Poems (London: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 54:
Hat tip: Ian Jackson.
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How should I not be glad to contemplateRead aloud by the poet here.
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart;
the sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.
Hat tip: Ian Jackson.
