[Clay Stockton]

Discovering Thom Gunn A Month Too Late

25 June 2004. Berkeley.


I only read the dead.
I love how close they stay
to current joy and dread.

I only read the dead
till Night Sweats came to bed;
I cried across the Bay.

I only read the dead.
I love how close they stay.



[This message has been edited by Clay Stockton (edited June 27, 2004).]