But worth it.
For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write a Happy Poem
Richard Jackson
Between two worlds life hovers like a star.
—Byron
for Tomaz
It is not so easy to live on the earth
as an angel, to imitate the insects that dance
around the moon, to return what air we borrow
every few seconds. I am going to enter
the hour when wind dreamt of a light dress
to stroke, when water dreamt of the lips it would meet.
The famous Pascalian worm will just have to find
another heart to eat.
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my love, how wonderful to have lived while you lived,
which is not the sort of poetry you read anyplace anymore.
For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write a Happy Poem
Richard Jackson
Between two worlds life hovers like a star.
—Byron
for Tomaz
It is not so easy to live on the earth
as an angel, to imitate the insects that dance
around the moon, to return what air we borrow
every few seconds. I am going to enter
the hour when wind dreamt of a light dress
to stroke, when water dreamt of the lips it would meet.
The famous Pascalian worm will just have to find
another heart to eat.
( Read more... )
my love, how wonderful to have lived while you lived,
which is not the sort of poetry you read anyplace anymore.