Mark Yakich reads “This Living Hand” by John Keats
March 15th, 2007
In this installment, Mark Yakich reads “This Living Hand” by John Keats. Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004) and The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006).
John Keats, “This Living Hand”
This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed—see here it is—
I hold it towards you.
