Try
By Jennifer Grotz
"Try to praise the mutilated world." -- Adam Zagajewski
To love the world is what you try to do,
describe the trash, the bombs, the fisted greed --
when it does not love back, does not love you.
There are still breezes, kisses, and a few
more pleasures between gratitude and need.
To love the world is what you try to do
after seeing the slow old man pursue
in the parking lot a cart that gathers speed.
When it does not love back, does not love you,
the world seems like a hammer and a screw.
Aside from watch and act, can one succeed
to love the world? What they say's untrue,
that what you do won't matter. View
the world as a book that needs to be reread
when it does not love back, does not love you.
Or, watch it like a candle troubled into blue
under a fan, a candle filigreed
to love the world. It's what you try to do
when it does not love back, does not love you.
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From today's Poet's Choice column in The Washington Post, on villanelles.
Icon in honor *snort* of Marriage Protection Week. Not that anyone here really wondered about my position on that, I trust.
Below, this is interesting because neither my real name nor my most common pseudonym yielded my usual answer, Ravenclaw. And I was a Gryffindor twice as often as a Slytherin even though my last name is one of the Slytherin colors. Yet my LJ name gave me:
On that other quiz, gacked from
Lots and lots of work to do (site columns, review round-up, news bullets) and it's a gorgeous day so I want to get outside. See you all later!
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