Talking to Grief

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Talking to Grief

Talking to Grief
September 1961
In Mind
Celebration
Untitled
Aware

Scraps of moon
bobbing discarded on broken water
but sky-moon
complete, transcending
all violation
Here she seems to be talking to herself about
the shape of a life:
Only Once
All which, because it was
flame and song and granted us
joy, we thought we’d do, be, revisit,
turns out to have been what it was
that once, only; every invitation
did not begin
a series, a build-up: the marvelous
did not happen in our lives, our stories
are not drab with its absence: but don’t
expect to return for more. Whatever more
there will be will be
unique as those were unique. Try
to acknowledge the next
song in its body-halo of flames as utterly
present, as now or never.

AuthorDenise Levertov
2018-08-21T17:23:17+00:00 November 1st, 2005|Categories: Poetry, Blesok no. 45|0 Comments