Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

The Sky Is Blue

The Sky Is Blue Put things in their place, my mother shouts. I am looking out the window, my plasticsoldier at my feet. The sky isblue and empty. In it floats the roof across the street. What place, I ask her. The Song The song is to emptiness. One may come and go without a ripple. Yousee it among fish in the sea, in the woods among the silent running animals, in a plane overhead, gone; man bowling or collecting coins, writing about it. Two Friends I have something to tell you. I'm listening. I'm dying. I'm sorry to hear. I'm growing old. It's terrible. It is, I thought you should know. 58 \ Poems of the 1960s ...