about the butterfly. I always wondered
what you wished for. What do you think I wished for?I don't know. That I'd come back,
that we'd somehow be together in the end. I wished for what I always wish for.
I wished for another poem.
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…
View profile & all 31 Poems / StoriesYou re stepping on your father, my mother said,and indeed I was standing exactly in the center
Reading what I have just written, I now believeI stopped precipitously, so that my story seems to have been
Even now this landscape is assembling.The hills darken. The oxen
I said you could snuggle. That doesn t meanyour cold feet all over my dick.
I was trying to love matter.I taped a sign over the mirror:
