Behind the Curtain, a photo by DAV.es on Flickr.
'As a blind man, lifting a curtain, knows it is morning,
I know this change:
On one side of silence there is no smile;
But when I breathe with the birds,
The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessing,
And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.'
Extract from Journey to the Interior,
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1968)
Faber and Faber Ltd.
Theodore Roethke
1908-63
Born in Michigan. He taught at the University of Seattle.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/theodore-roethke
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1964jun-00050
