Jaye Lawrence ([info]wordswoman) wrote,
@ 2006-12-04 21:26:00
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Take Two Poems at Bedtime
When I am tired--and oh, I am tired!--there is poetry.

When my head fills to bursting with lists, with the remembering of things, with musts and shoulds--there is poetry.

When calendar page after calendar page has turned without an hour to sit quietly and think of nothing, softly--there is poetry.

Two-minute beauty. Paper-and-ink elixirs. Xanadu. Yes.

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by e.e. cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

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