March 24, 2006

from "# 46" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

from A Coney Island of the Mind. © New Directions. Reprinted with Permission.


# 46

And every poem and every picture
a sensation in the eye and heart
Something that jolts you awake
from the rapt sleep of living

1 comment:

Clifford Duffy said...

good old Ferlinghetti, how good and cool to you quoting him