Portrait Of A Figure Near Water Comments

Marvellous! Real poetry. Sure, Jane Kenyon is a great poet. Deserves to be treated better.

It's official. With reading the last few poems and this one- I am a huge fan of Jane Kenyon. She is a master wordsmith- Anger, the inner arsonist, held a match to her brain. - - The stone trough was still filled with water: she watched it and received its calm. - - Then she closes the poem so briefly, clearly, lucid as the water she writes about. She died too young, God, we need her ilk on earth here guiding us