Wendell Berry: Kentucky River Junction
to Ken Kesey & Ken Babbs
Clumsy at first, fitting together
the years we have been apart,
and the ways.
But as the night
passed and the day came, the first
fine morning of April,
it came clear:
the world that has tried us
and showed us its joy
was our bond
when we said nothing.
And we allowed it to be
with us, the new green
shining.
*
Our lives, half gone,
stay full of laughter.
Free-hearted men
have the world for words.
Though we have been
apart, we have been together.
*
Trying to sleep, I cannot
take my mind away.
The bright day
shines in my head
like a coin
on the bed of a stream.
*
You left
your welcome.(From Collected Poems: 1957-1982)
Photo: Wendell Berry on the Kentucky River
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Farmer-poet and eco-activist, Wendell Berry turns 78 today. Read more on Berry’s eco-poetics in this interview… —-...
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