Wednesday, November 20, 2013

"TELL ME A STORY"; By Robert Penn Warren

TELL ME A STORY
By Robert Penn Warren

[A]
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.

I could not see them, there being no moon
And the stars sparse. I heard them.

I did not know what was happening in my heart.

It was the season before the elderberry blooms,
Therefore they were going north.

The sound was passing northward.

[B]
Tell me a story.

In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a. story.

Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.

The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.


Tell me a story of deep delight.

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