Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell
(May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965 / Nashville)
Comments about Randall Jarrell
Well Water
What a girl called "the dailiness of life"
(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,
"Since you're up . . ." Making you a means to
A means to a means to) is well water
Pumped from an old well at the bottom of the world.
The pump you pump the water from is rusty
And hard to move and absurd, a squirrel-wheel
A sick squirrel turns slowly, through the sunny
Inexorable hours. And yet sometimes
Jarrell is easily the greatest poet/critic of the 20th century. -LP