We are one another's floe. Each displaces the weight of his own need. I am fat as a bloodhound, hold me up. I won't hurt you. Though I bay, I would swim with you on my back until the cold seeped into my heart. We are committed, we are going across this river willy-nilly. No one, black or white, is free in Kentucky, old gravity owns everybody. We're weighty. I contemplate this unfavorable aspect of things. Where is something solid? Only you and me. Has anyone ever been to Ohio? Do the people there stand firmly on icebergs? Here all we have is love, a great undulating raft, melting steadily. We go out on it anyhow. I love you, I love this fool's walk. The thing we have to learn is how to walk light. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SUN GOD by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE RHOECUS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL DOCTOR FELL by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS VISIONS OF THE WORLDS VANITIE by EDMUND SPENSER LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE VANITAS VANITATUM, FR. THE DEVIL'S CASE LAW by JOHN WEBSTER ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS [JANUARY 14, 1807] by JOEL BARLOW |