Ambergris - by Stanley Kunitz - This body, tapped of every drop of breath, In vast corruption of its swollen pride, Proclaims itself the very whale of death; Yet, I believe, the hand that plumbs its side Will gather dissolution's sweet increase. Exquisite fern of death--in nature, ambergris. Meanwhile, thinking... Read more →
Posts prior to 2015 first appeared on my previous website, memory & desire (memoryanddesire.net).