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sorry poem

how shall i help to right the world that is going wrong
the body may confine
with the sunset
under a spreading chestnut tree
leave the lovely words unsaid
it was a tall young oysterman
passing through huddled and ugly walls
out of the deep and the dark
the single clenched fist lifted and ready
in halls of sleep you wandered by
sleep sweetly in your humble graves
she knows a cheap release
one sweetly solemn thought
desolate and lone

 



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