Ruth Stone, Dead at 96
Ruth Stone ~ June 8, 1915 - November 19, 2011
On November 19th Poet Ruth Stone died at the age of 96. Her body was buried under apple trees on the farm in Vermont where she lived and wrote for over 50 years.
Meanwhile, I feel the need to publicly bow my head and say thank you.Â
Thank you, Ruth Stone, for your devotion to poems — for obeying them whenever they called to you to write them down.
Interview with Ruth Stone in The Drunken Boat
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In the Next Galaxy
by Ruth Stone
Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
new wrap-around verandas.
The idea of Hitler will not
have vibrated yet.
While back here,
they are still cleaning out
pockets of wrinkled
Nazis hiding in Argentina.
But in the next galaxy,
certain planets will have true
blue skies and drinking water.