First Four Books of Poems by Louise Gluck

Author:Louise Gluck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

Thanksgiving

They have come again to graze the orchard,

knowing they will be denied.

The leaves have fallen; on the dry ground

the wind makes piles of them, sorting

all its destroys.

What doesn’t move, the snow will cover.

It will give them away; their hooves

make patterns which the snow remembers.

In the cleared field, they linger

as the summoned prey whose part

is not to forgive. They can afford to die.

They have their place in the dying order.

II

The Mirror

Epithalamium

There were others; their bodies

were a preparation.

I have come to see it as that.

As a stream of cries.

So much pain in the world—the formless

grief of the body, whose language

is hunger—

And in the hall, the boxed roses:

what they mean

is chaos. Then begins

the terrible charity of marriage,

husband and wife

climbing the green hill in gold light

until there is no hill,

only a flat plain stopped by the sky.

Here is my hand, he said.

But that was long ago.

Here is my hand that will not harm you.

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