I often read poetry before writing in the morning as a kind of limbering-up to the task at hand. Sometimes I reach for familiar voices and other times, I’ll open an anthology to a random page to see what the Calliope has in mind for me. Two poems discovered the happenstance invocation-of-the-muses way completely stopped me in my tracks earlier this month. I’ve been unpacking them for days on end and thought you might also find meaning in them —
What do they bring up for you?
Otherwise by Jane Kenyon.
This is one way to practice gratitude — !
Celestial Music by Louise Gluck.
“The love of form is the love of endings.” Wow. I have been processing this line for a long time. I love the way Gluck is strumming at the venn diagram center between divinity, art, and death so masterfully; the conversational, seemingly free-style format only underscores — complicates — the question of what it means to impose form, structure on art and life.
What did you think of these? Any other poems you’ve been enjoying lately?
Post-Scripts.
+Poems that feel like a deep breath.
+An analysis of one of my favorite Elizabeth Bishop pieces. Absolutely masterful.
+On being a bad book girl.
Post-Scripts.
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