Last night my daughter and I attended the Seattle Arts & Lectures reading at Benaroya Hall. Louise Glück gave a fantastic reading. This was one of the poems she shared with us:
The Red Poppy
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.
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