Robert Creeley

Here’s a short poem by American poet and founder of the Black Mountain movement of the 1950s Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 — March 30, 2005), who was born on this day.

Love Comes Quietly

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.

--Robert Creeley