{"id":171010,"date":"2020-11-02T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=171010"},"modified":"2020-11-01T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T11:42:48","slug":"crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"

My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
\nI begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,
\nlike what I remember of love when I was young \u2014<\/p>\n

love that was so often foolish in its objectives
\nbut never in its choices, its intensities
\nToo much demanded in advance, too much that could not be promised \u2014<\/p>\n

My soul has been so fearful, so violent;
\nforgive its brutality.
\nAs though it were that soul, my hand moves over you cautiously,<\/p>\n

not wishing to give offense
\nbut eager, finally, to achieve expression as substance:<\/p>\n

it is not the earth I will miss,
\nit is you I will miss.<\/p>\n

___________________________________________<\/p>\n

Crossroads was originally published in<\/em> Louise Gl\u00fcck<\/em>\u2019s 2009 book, <\/em>A Village Life, later included in her collected<\/em> Poems 1962\u20132012<\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"Louise Gl\u00fcck<\/a> (1943 – )\u00a0is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of several collections of poetry including <\/em>Poems 1962\u20132012<\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>). She served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and was the Library of Congress\u2019s twelfth poet laureate consultant in poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
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