The Road Not Taken by David Orr

The Road Not Taken by David Orr

Author:David Orr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-07-22T13:11:38+00:00


Back out of all this now too much for us,

Back in a time made simple by the loss

Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off

Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,

There is a house that is no more a house

Upon a farm that is no more a farm

And in a town that is no more a town.

The road there, if you’ll let a guide direct you

Who only has at heart your getting lost,

May seem as if it should have been a quarry . . .

The poem proceeds through a series of possible self-deceptions that recall the potential self-deceptions of “The Road Not Taken”:



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