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38. Poems from Walden
(McNeer, Gordon E.)
978-1-951370-10-7
In 2020 a worldwide pandemic changed the world. Mankind, vulnerable creatures whose bodies could be devastated by a single particle of virus in the air, saw themselves forced to return to the forests, to the life of nature, to primordial solitude. Gordon E. McNeer takes us back to Walden, where Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months and two days. The Poems from Walden enter into the heart of the forest, where the heartbeat of solitude is felt like a blow to the chest. Capable as no one else of blending traditional and contemporary language, Gordon E. McNeer has written a book that reflects on a time of death, fear and solitude.
Fernando Valverde
Author Gordon E. McNeer
ISBN 978-1-951370-10-7
Pages 69
Format Paperback
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ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO
For Vicente Aleixandre
To grow old
to cross a bridge
and let the waters down below
stir the child and set the stone.
To feel the evening
shadows come to rest
upon our shoulders
–the cold the dread–
broken blood and bones
of those gone on ahead.
To listen to the voice
that bids us stay a while.
To listen to the soul
that fears the darkness
vast and wide and cries