Hear Koon Woon reading selected poems:
/Website for Woon & Associates Consulting
/https://www.woonconsulting.com/blog
Koon Woon on KUOW radio
https://www.kuow.org/stories/koon-woon-poetry-without-justice-is-nothing (click link)
Valeria Nollan
Excerpts from Valeria’s chapbook : In Search of Rachmaninoff
file:///C:/Users/koonw/Downloads/InSearch-1.pdf
Poem Valeria enjoyed:
“The Sentry,” by Alun Lewis (from Poetry of the World Wars, ed. Michael Foss; Bedrick)
I have begun to die.
For now at last I know
That there is no escape
From Night. Not any dream
Nor breathless images of sleep
Touch my bat’s eyes. I hang
Leathery-arid from the hidden roof
Of Night, and sleeplessly
I watch within Sleep’s province.
I have left
The lovely bodied of the boy and girl
Deep in each other’s placid arms;
And I have left
The beautiful lanes of sleep
The barefoot lovers follow to this last
Cold shore of thought I guard.
I have begun to die
And the guns’ implacable silence
Is my black interim, my youth and age,
In the flower of fury, the folded poppy,
Night.
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