Enormous Night (verse)
Kunitz, Stanley J.
Enormous Night Enormous night is imminent, With chasms cleft and pouring tides, On the wan child whose strength is spent And weeping, weeping, hides. Vast is the solitary dark, But prisoned in its...
...Soul's cerement and marriage dress, Winding to hell with double stain, Is black with monstrous loneliness And red with blood of pain: But faith shall make the spirit whole And love shall wash its garment white, When imminent upon the soul Comes the enormous night...
...STANLEY J. KUNITZ...
...Vast is the solitary dark, But prisoned in its bag of skin The naked soul bewildered, stark, Has a void more vast within, Where twisting on its fiery bones It breaks them on the body's tree, And selfward flings appalling stones In dark of Calvary...
Vol. 11 • November 1929 • No. 4
