To the Black Madonna of Chartres
Friend or no friend, darkness or light, vowels or consonants, water or dry land, anything more from you now is just gravy —just send me down forgiveness, send me down bearing myself a black cupful of light.
Credit
From Door in the Mountain. Copyright © 2004 by Jean Valentine. Reprinted with permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Author
Jean Valentine
The author of many collections of poetry, Jean Valentine has received such honors as the National Book Award, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Date Published
01/01/2004