September 2017
Irving Feldman
feldman@buffalo.edu
feldman@buffalo.edu
I retired from the SUNY Buffalo English Department in 2004. Have published a dozen or so collections of poems. Such my addiction to the sport of squash racquets my headstone is to read: "ONE MORE GAME?" See more of my poems HERE.
WAKING WORDS
The evening sleeps that stars
may be conceived --- see,
they shine, the infant worlds!
How simple that was,
to sleep to the naming
of stars! You slept,
and speech was born in light,
the infant words,
how simple then was!
Come, says happiness,
that anachronism, naming
you and taking your hand
to follow to its early
country. What pleasure now
to see yourself by glow
and fulguration, to be
the star that is here
and star that is there,
the leap and light
--- dawn, transparent star!
© 2017 Irving Feldman
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