Juan Higera Creek by Robinson Jeffers

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 13, 2014   Juan Higera Creek   Robinson Jeffers

Neither your face, Higera, nor your deeds Are known to me; and death these many years Retains you, under grass or forest-mould. Only a rivulet bears your name: it runs Deep-hidden in undeciduous redwood shade And trunks by age made holy, streaming down A valley of the Santa Lucian hills. There have I stopped, and though the unclouded sun Flew high in loftiest heaven, no dapple of light Flecked the large trunks below the leaves intense, Nor flickered on your creek: murmuring it sought The River of the South, which oceanward Would sweep it down. I drank sweet water there, And blessed your immortality. Not bronze, Higera, nor yet marble cool the thirst; Let bronze and marble of the rich and proud Secure the names; your monument will last Longer, of living water forest-pure.              This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Juan Higera Creek” by Robinson Jeffers was published in Jeffers’s second collection, Californians (Macmillan, 1916).   Robinson Jeffers was born on January 10, 1887, in Pennsylvania. Jeffers’s verse, much of which is set in the Carmel/Big Sur region, celebrates the beauty of coastal hills and ravines. He died in 1962. Poetry by Jeffers   The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Stanford University Press, 2001) “The Parallel Cathedral” by Tom Sleigh “Four Poems for Robin” by Gary Snyder “What’s the railroad to me?” by Henry David Thoreau Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038