Stanley Kunitz

American poet Stanley Kunitz, Worcester, Massachusetts
July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006

AN OLD CRACKED TUNE

My name is Solomon Levi,
the desert is my home,
my mother's breast was thorny,
and father I had none.

The sands whispered, Be separate,
the stones taught me, Be hard.
I dance, for the joy of surviving,
on the edge of the road.

Stanley Kunitz