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Enough or Not – Part Three of Three – A Poem by Ellen Bass

September 14, 2015 – 2:35 pm

                      from Autumn Quince The world is a blurred version of itself — marred, lovely, and flawed. It is enough Jane Hirschfield from Each Happiness Ringed by Lions, Bloodaxe Books, 2005 from Enough Enough seen….Enough had….Enough… —Arthur Rimbaud No. It will never be enough. Never enough […]

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Enough or Not? – Part One of Three – First, A Poem by Charles Wright

September 12, 2015 – 2:27 pm

U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright   WITH EDDIE AND NANCY IN AREZZO AT THE CAFÉ GRANDE Piero in wraps, the True Cross sotto restauro, Piazza desolate edge Where sunlight breaks it, desolate edge Where sunlight pries it apart A child kicks a soccer ball. Another heads it back. The Fleeting World, Po Chu-I says, short-hops […]

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The Secret Life of Things – More Poems and Poets on Paying Attention

December 6, 2014 – 9:59 am

  Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the […]

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