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Day's Routine

Text of Poem

A day of simple duties
ends with the hours’ flight
into the lake of sunset
under the mountain night.
I keep the path until I see
your face framed in the light.

You hoed the housewife’s garden,
I traded strength for bread,
and we must tell each other
what we have done and said
before the dying embers
before the drowsy evening
send us all to bed.

First Line
A day of simple duties
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1966
Original Citation
Today 21(Jan. 1966) 13.
Complete Poems
160
Hearst Collections
Word Count
67
Poetic Form
closed
Bibliographic Notes

Publishing Error: pages 19-20 and 41-42 and incorrectly printed twice, back to back, between pages 30-31

Themes
Twitter Quote
I keep the path until I see / your face framed in the light.