Friday, August 20, 2010

Whatever Returns

You who do no remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:

from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.

-From "The Wild Iris" in The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Iris-Louise-Gluck/dp/0880013346

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