Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BOY RUNNING, by SARAH LITSEY


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BOY RUNNING, by                    
First Line: You cleave the frail, immediate air
Last Line: You fling your body free -- and run!
Subject(s): Boys


You cleave the frail, immediate air
With time blown backward through your hair,
With ancient mornings and lost skies
Melted to wonder in your eyes
And all your swift, mysterious need
Streaming within you for your speed.

The moment trembles to the fleet
Faintest thunder of your feet
And the day is struck apart
By what has flashed inside your heart,
By what has poured its urgent flood
Into the rivers of your blood
To make of you an unnamed thing
Tilted against the winds of spring.

Mindless and timeless as the sun
You fling your body free -- and run!





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