Pulitzer poet Kunitz dead at 100

1 post / 0 new
Pulitzer poet Kunitz dead at 100

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4985400.stm

Requiem aeternum dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.

this is just Beautiful - the first stanza of 'The Science Of The Night'

I touch you in the night, whose gift was you,
My careless sprawler,
And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused,
That have become the land of your self-strangeness.
What long seduction of the bone has led you
Down the imploring roads I cannot take
Into the arms of ghosts I never knew,
Leaving my manhood on a rumpled field
To guard you where you lie so deep
In absent-mindedness,
Caught in the calcium snows of sleep?