Poem-A-Day: Anything Can Happen by Seamus Heaney

Anything Can Happen by Seamus Heaney     Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter Will mostly wait for clouds to gather head Before he hurls the lightening? Well, just now He galloped his thunder cart and his horses   Across a clear blue sky. It shook the earth And the clogged underearth, the River Styx, The winding streams, the Atlantic shore itself. Anything can happen, the tallest towers   Be overturned, those in high places daunted, Those overlooked regarded. Stropped-beak Fortune Swoops, making the air gasp, tearing the crest off one, Setting it down bleeding on the next.   Ground gives. The heaven's weight Lifts up off Atlas like a kettle-lid. Capstones shift, nothing resettles right. Telluric ash and fire-spores boil away.            "Anything Can Happen" from District and Circle by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 2006 by Seamus Heaney. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.   Remembering Seamus Heaney On the sad occasion of the loss of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30, 2013, in Dublin, Ireland, Academy Chancellors Jane Hirshfield, Mark Doty, C. D. Wright, Anne Waldman, and Juan Felipe Herrera remember the beloved poet and his art. Poetry by Heaney Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)   September 5, 2013  Seamus Heaney was born    in Northern Ireland in 1939.   He was awarded the Nobel Prize   in Literature in 1995. Heaney   was a professor at Harvard    University and the University   of Oxford. He died on August 30,  2013. Related Poems Extraordinary Rendition by Paul Muldoon A Song On the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz Some People by Wislawa Szymborska Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the  Poem-A-Day Archive.         Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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