Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.” [ID in alt text]
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Louise Glück, from “Poems: 1962-2012; Persephone The Wanderer", published c. 2012.
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― Louise Glück, from ‘Mitosis’
Poems 1962-2012
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Aubade
The world was very large. Then
the world was small. O
very small, small enough
to fit in a brain.
It had no color, it was all
interior space: nothing
got in or out. But time
seeped in anyway, that
was the tragic dimension.
I took time very seriously in those years,
if I remember accurately.
A room with a chair, a window.
A small window, filled with the patterns light makes.
In its emptiness the world
was whole always, not
a chip of something, with
the self at the center.
And at the center of the self,
grief I thought I couldn't survive.
A room with a bed, a table. Flashes
of light on the naked surfaces.
I had two desires: desire
to be safe and desire to feel. As though
the world were making
a decision against white
because it disdained potential
and wanted in its place substance:
panels
of gold where the light struck.
In the window, reddish
leaves of the copper beech tree.
Out of the stasis, facts, objects
blurred or knitted together: somewhere
time stirring, time
crying to be touched, to be
palpable,
the polished wood
shimmering with distinctions---
and then I was once more
a child in the presence of riches
and I didn't know what the riches were made of.
Louise Glück, Vita Nova (1999), reprinted in Poems 1962–2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
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change your form and you change your nature. And time does this to us.
Louise Glück | p.333 | Poems 1962-2012
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Then you kissed me-I felt hot wax on my forehead. I wanted it to leave a mark: that's how I knew I loved you. Because I wanted to be burned, stamped, to have something in the end-
Louise Glück, "Marathon" Poems 1962 - 2012
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Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012
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Louise Glück, from Persephone The Wanderer in "Poems 1962-2012"
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Louise Glück, from "The Wound", Poems 1962-2012
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— Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012.
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Louise Glück, from “Poems: 1962-2012; Persephone The Wanderer", published c. 2012.
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