Museum
Sundays, like a stanza break Or shower’s end of all applause, For some old unexplaining sake The optimistic tread these shores, As lonely as the dead awake Or God among the dinosaurs.
Credit
From The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990–1995 by Glyn Maxwell. Copyright © 2000 by Glyn Maxwell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Author
Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell, a poet, playwright, critic, and teacher, was born in 1962 in Hertfordshire City, England, to Welsh parents. He studied English at Oxford University and both poetry and theatre with Derek Walcott at Boston University.
Date Published
01/01/2000