The Poetry Show: Light and Dark

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"I have faith in nights.'

 

 

The themes of Light and Dark are treated poignantly, "at arms length", and with devotion by the great talents of Jane Kenyon, Robert Frost, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays at 10 AM Eastern Time Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case This Episode Recorded September 27, 2023

Let Evening Come

by Jane Kenyon

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.
Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.
Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.
To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.
Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.

 

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