Showing posts with label Roethke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roethke. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2014

WLEM AM

Where only your hairdresser knows for sure.



What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!   
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.   
That place among the rocks—is it a cave,   
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.