Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

2000. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.  
Imperfect Thirst.

Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps". An admitted follower of Walt Whitman Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world.