[New-Poetry] from the Writer's Almanac

[Anny Ballardini]

Poem: "Poem: "Night Below Zero" by Kenneth Rexroth, from The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth. © Copper Canyon Press. Reprinted with permission. (buy now) 

Night Below Zero 

3 AM, the night is absolutely still;
Snow squeals beneath my skis, plumes on the turns.
I stop at the canyon's edge, stand looking out
Over the Great Valley, over the millions -
In bed, drunk, loving, tending mills, furnaces,
Alone, wakeful, as the world rolls in chaos.
The quarter moon rises in the black heavens -
Over the sharp constellations of the cities
The cold lies, crystalline and silent,
Locked between the mountains.



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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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