I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies
Above me in a blue light
Shed by a tinted window.


The Hospital Window (l. 1–4). - The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

James Dickey Quotes

I have just come down from my father. Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window.

I have just come down from my father. Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window.

I have just come down from my father. Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window.

I have just come down from my father. Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window.