After writing poems all day,
I go off to see the moon in the pines.
Far in the woods I sit down against a pine.
The moon has her porches turned to face the light,
But the deep part of her house is in the darkness.

—Robert Bly

Rights & Access

Eating the Honey of Words, 1999
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY

Copyright 1999 by Robert Bly.
All rights reserved.

Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers from Eating the Honey of Words. Copyright 1999 by Robert Bly. For further permissions information, contact Subsidiary Rights Department, 6th floor, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53 Street, New York, NY 10022, Rights information line: (212) 207-7791, www.harpercollins.com

  • Robert Bly

    Robert Bly (1926-2021) is the author of over 30 poetry collections, including Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life (White Pine Press, 2015).

    More about Robert Bly