"I keep one ray"
Dickinson, Stafford, Williams, Daniel, Levertov, McGuckian
Emily Dickinson:
understood you? / Of their / peculiar light / I keep one / ray / To clarify the / Sight / To seek them / by— / your Scholar—
William Stafford:
C.K. Williams:
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Mary-Alice Daniel:
Denise Levertov:
Medbh McGuckian:
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I love Williams’s last sentence.
Where does the poem Light appear? He seems to have many by that name.
What a concept, having power over one's consciousness.