Archibald MacLeish

Here you will find the Poem Way-Station of poet Archibald MacLeish

Way-Station

The incoherent rushing of the train 
Dulls like a drugged pain 

Numbs 
To an ether throbbing of inaudible drums 

Unfolds 
Hush within hush until the night withholds 

Only its darkness. 
From the deep 
Dark a voice calls like a voice in sleep 

Slowly a strange name in a strange tongue. 

Among 

The sleeping listeners a sound 
As leaves stir faintly on the ground 

When snow falls from a windless sky? 
A stir A sigh