Louise Gluck is a Pulitzer prize winning poet. She was the US Poet Laureate from 2003-2004. You can read more about her at Britannica Online. I like her poetry quite a bit - hopefully you'll enjoy this one.
Matins
You want to know how I spend my time?
I walk the front lawn, pretending
to be weeding. You ought to know
I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling
clumps of clover from the flower beds: in fact
I'm looking for courage, for some evidence
my life will change, though
it takes forever, checking
each clump for the symbolic
leaf, and soon the summer is ending, already
the leaves turning, always the sick trees
going first, the dying turning
brilliant yellow, while a few dark birds perform
their curfew of music. You want to see my hands?
As empty now as at the first note.
Or was the point always
to continue without a sign?
2 comments:
Like this one! Especially the part where "...while a few dark birds perform their curfew of music." Looking forward to more poetry.
Thanks Denise - glad you liked it!
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