Look, a butterfly. Did you make a wish?You don't wish on butterflies.You do so. Did you make one?Yes.It doesn't count.
The Butterfly
About the poet
Louise Glück
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets, Glück is known for her poetry’s technical preci…
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Aboriginal Landscape
You re stepping on your father, my mother said,and indeed I was standing exactly in the center
Afterword
Reading what I have just written, I now believeI stopped precipitously, so that my story seems to have been
All Hallows
Even now this landscape is assembling.The hills darken. The oxen
Anniversary
I said you could snuggle. That doesn t meanyour cold feet all over my dick.
Archaic Fragment
I was trying to love matter.I taped a sign over the mirror:
