Sweet death, small son, our instrument
Of immortality,
Your cries and hungers document
Our bodily decay.


The Alligator Bride: Poems New and Selected (ed. 1969)

Donald Hall Quotes

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.