“The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up…”
“long quivering gold knives of light shooting up, cutting the sky…”
“would roll across the hollow of the high heavens,
flick like a flag,
and disappear”
(source: Apostle John, W.J. Smith, and R. Kipling)
William Jay Smith, wrote over 50 books of poetry and lectured at Columbia University, Oxford,…
