AND when on the dark steel came the roads Of a milky mist, and a spray of stars, Bunches and squares and a spatter of stars, We counted stars, one by one, a million and a million. And we remembered those stars as fishermen remember fish, As bees remember blossoms, as crops remember rains. And these were rooms too; we can so reckon. We can always say we have gone through great rooms together. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOTES FOR THE FIRST LINE OF A SPANISH POEM by JAMES GALVIN SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE by JAMES GALVIN AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN QUEST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON PROMISE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON YOUTH'S PROGENY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |