Feast Day Elegy.(Poem)

From: The Southern Review | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Davis, Carol Ann | Copyright information 
Feast Day Elegy 
 
   Here is the feast day with its large hands 
   and mouth, its river sound and clay color, 
   the town concerned just now with bathing 
 
   and gathering wood. I won't be here again, 
   this year of three thousand days 
   closing its fist to me lovingly as it must, 
 
   its five fingers and veins and nails 
   turned to no sound, no voice. I want, 
   as Thomas did, to say 
 
   let us all go to die with him, 
   but I am passing through 
   the Middle Ages--I am...

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