So You Say by Mark Strand
It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness. The coming of cold,
the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world.
You take my arm and say something will happen,
something unusual for which we were always prepared,
like the sun arriving after a day in Asia,
like the moon departing after a night with us.
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Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteStrand is maybe among my top three favorites, and I had not read this before.
oh and nice to display another "mark" with him.
ReplyDeleteCome to him, via Haruki Marukami's Underground, he has one of his poems on the book.
ReplyDeleteRothko is one of my favorite artists.