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The letters always just evade the
One skates like a stone into a beam, falls like a bird.
Surely the past from which the letters
Is waiting in the future, past the graves?
The soldiers are all haunted by their lives.
Their claims upon their kind are paid in
That established a presence, like a smell.
In letters and in dreams they see the world.
They are waiting: and the years
To an empty hand, to one unuttered sound —The soldier simply wishes for his name.
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11
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