#mark strand

[mournfulroses]

Mark Strand, from The Complete & Collected Poems of Mark Strand; "Moontan,"

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Keeping Things Whole” by Mark Strand

[thegroaningbook]

Black Blizzard

Wesley Kimler, 2021

Cover image for Between Here and the Sound of a Groaning Interstate & The Groaning Book by KC Clarke

Two connected works: Between Here and the Sound of a Groaning Interstate, a poetry collection written between 1993 and 2024, and The Groaning Book, a poetics.

“Very good, complex poem.” — Mark Strand, on the poem “Orion”

available here

Wesley Kimler (b. 1953), Black Blizzard, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 37 × 37 in., private collection.

[apoemaday]

Lines for Winter

by Mark Strand

Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself — inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.

Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down under the small fire of winter stars.

And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you find yourself where you will be at the end, tell yourself in that final flowing of cold through your limbs that you love what you are.

[seekingstars]

HOUR - Mark Strand

[apocryphics]

[othellho]

“The Remains”, Mark Strand

[mutable-wings]

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

— Mark Strand, from "The Coming of Light"