Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapirowas an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1913
CountryUnited States of America
ashes dream hear promised record service simple thoughts watch wholly whose wiped youth
We too are ashes as we watch and hear The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise, Of one whose promised thoughts of other days, Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed, The service record of his youth wiped out, His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.
belly fear punched sat sow
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.