The Snake in September and a Question?

[decterlove]

I found this great poem that I used in my recent enewsletter (and credited the author with.) I'd love to use it on my website...is it legal to do so with a famous poet? I think he's a laureat. He's in Wikipedia and everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kunitz

The Snake in September
by Stanley Kunitz



All summer I heard them rustling in the shrubbery,
outracing me from tier to tier in my garden, a whisper among the viburnums,
a signal flashed from the hedgerow,
a shadow pulsing in the barberry thicket. Now that the nights are chill and the annuals spent,
I should have thought them gone,
in a torpor of blood slipped to the nether world
before the sickle frost.
Not so. In the deceptive balm of noon,
as if defiant of the curse
that spoiled another garden,
these two appear on show
through a narrow slit
in the dense green brocade
of a north-country spruce,
dangling head-down, entwined in a brazen love-knot.
I put out my hand and stroke the fine, dry grit of their skins.
After all, we are partners in this land, co-signers of a covenant.
At my touch the wild braid of creation trembles.


https://www.handsonsnakes.com/