Desert places

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it--it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it is that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less--
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

Di Robert Frost,
Da A Further Range, 1936

Da questa poesia, per la precisione dal suo ultimo verso, deriva il nome di questo blog. Sento che quell'ultima frase in qualche modo ha a che fare con me, mi appartiene...
Purtroppo non capisco molto di poesia, ma consiglio ugualmente Robert Frost, io l'ho conosciuto grazie al telefilm Roswell e alla bellissima Stopping by woods on a snowy evening.