Nostos (Louise Gluck Poem)
There was an apple tree in the yard -- this would have been forty years ago -- behind, only meadows. ...
There was an apple tree in the yard -- this would have been forty years ago -- behind, only meadows. ...
What does the horse give you That I cannot give you? I watch you when you are alone, When you ...
A man and a woman lie on a white bed. It is morning. I think Soon they will waken. On ...
Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for ...
I'll tell you something: every day people are dying. And that's just the beginning. Every day, in funeral homes, new ...
Remember that time you made the wish? I make a lot of wishes. The time I lied to you about ...
My mother's an expert in one thing: sending people she loves into the other world. The little ones, the babies--these ...
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord ...
Late December: my father and I are going to New York, to the circus. He holds me on his shoulders ...
Look, a butterfly. Did you make a wish? You don't wish on butterflies. You do so. Did you make one? ...
At the end of my suffering there was a door. Hear me out: that which you call death I remember. ...
Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was-- for what ...
To say I'm without fear-- It wouldn't be true. I'm afraid of sickness, humiliation. Like anyone, I have my dreams. ...
There is always something to be made of pain. Your mother knits. She turns out scarves in every shade of ...
Remember the days of our first happiness, how strong we were, how dazed by passion, lying all day, then all ...
In our family, there were two saints, my aunt and my grandmother. But their lives were different. My grandmother's was ...
The great man turns his back on the island. Now he will not die in paradise nor hear again the ...
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