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| Stanley Kunitz, provincetown.com |
February 14th, 2012
Provincetown is rich with works of ardor written by authors and playwrights who call our beloved town their muse. Let’s begin this Valentines Day online poetry slam with a brilliant jewel by former Poet Laureate and Fine Arts Work Center co-founder Stanley Kunitz:
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| Tennessee Williams, courtesy of Nola.com |
YOUNG LOVE
At his incipient sun
The ice of twenty winters broke,
Crackling, in her eyes.
Her mirroring, still mind,
That held the world (made double) calm,
Went fluid, and it ran.
There was a stir of music,
Mixed with flowers, in her blood;
A swift impulsive balm
From obscure roots;
Gold bees of clinging light
Swarmed in her brow.
She is a tree in spring
Trembling with the hope of leaves,
Of which the leaves are tongues.
Her throat is full of songs,
She hums, she is sensible of wings
Growing on her heart.
At his incipient sun
The ice of twenty winters broke,
Crackling, in her eyes.
Her mirroring, still mind,
That held the world (made double) calm,
Went fluid, and it ran.
There was a stir of music,
Mixed with flowers, in her blood;
A swift impulsive balm
From obscure roots;
Gold bees of clinging light
Swarmed in her brow.
She is a tree in spring
Trembling with the hope of leaves,
Of which the leaves are tongues.
Her throat is full of songs,
She hums, she is sensible of wings
Growing on her heart.
Tennessee Williams changed the world with A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. His deep understanding of love and heartbreak is just as profound in this delicate piece:
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