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Charles Wright, New Poet Laureate of the United States

6/12/2014

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Congratulations to  Charles Wright, new U.S. poet laureate!

ACROSS THE CREEK
IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER


No darkness steps out of the woods,

no angel appears.

I listen, no word, I look, no thing.

Eternity must be hiding back there, it’s done so before.

I can wait, or I can climb,

Like Orpheus, through the slick organs of my body.

I guess I’ll wait,

at least until tomorrow night, or the day after.

And if the darkness does not appear,

that’s a long time.

And if no angel, it’s longer still.

“Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River” from “Caribou” by Charles Wright. Copyright © 2014 by Charles Wright.

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