"I didn't know I loved sparks"
Oliver, Seidman, Pessoa, Hikmet, Dickinson, Edmonson
Mary Oliver:
Hugh Seidman:
Fernando Pessoa (tr. from Portuguese by Richard Zenith):
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Nazim Hikmet (tr. from Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk):
Emily Dickinson:
We never know we go / when we are going— / We jest and shut the / Door—
Fate - following - behind us / bolts it— // And we accost (we know no more -)
Kat Edmonson, “I Don’t Know (Reprise),” rec. February 20, 2011:
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That Emily Dickinson poem is new to me. So good. Thanks for sharing.
I've read these about every day for a bit now. I'm trying to absorb a bit of what good poetry can be.
Thanks for curating these.