Louise Gluck Never Poems

  • 1.
    One summer she goes into the field as usual
    stopping for a bit at the pool where she often
    looks at herself, to see
    if she detects any changes. She sees
    ...
  • 2.
    Remember the days of our first happiness,
    how strong we were, how dazed by passion,
    lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed,
    sleeping there, eating there too: it was summer,
    ...
  • 3.
    The great thing
    is not having
    a mind. Feelings:
    oh, I have those; they
    ...
  • 4.
    You want to know how I spend my time?
    I walk the front lawn, pretending
    to be weeding. You ought to know
    I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling
    ...
  • 5.
    How can you say
    earth should give me joy? Each thing
    born is my burden; I cannot succeed
    with all of you.
    ...
  • 6.
    Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.
    I don't see anything objectively.

    I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist.
    ...
  • 7.
    I never turned anyone into a pig.
    Some people are pigs; I make them
    Look like pigs.

    ...
  • 8.
    Now, in twilight, on the palace steps
    the king asks forgiveness of his lady.

    He is not
    ...
Total 8 Never Poems by Louise Gluck

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