I see time as the time of the body. So now that I see myself as time I am about to move into the shadow, out of the high sun, the shadow that is cooling to my skin and brain. I may do exactly what I had been doing under the sun, but now I may do it mildly, letting the heat mount at my own pace, at my own degree of warmth of skin and brain. I become my own master in the shade. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE by COUNTEE CULLEN A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1839) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS APPELLATE JURISDICTION by MARIANNE MOORE OCTAVES: 15 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |