Yes, my dear, nothing's easy.
Most things are hard, the rest
we make hard for ourselves.
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Sometimes
the best we can hope
to bear is to open
ourselves to light,
to r e f r a c t
our suffering . . .
Travis, I saw a version of this when we were at YDS. I love the light/prism metaphor. Not sure about the spacing though of the word refract; maybe visually distracting? too cute? And you truncated what was a much longer poem! Why? Can you, for kicks, re-post the earlier, longer version?
ReplyDeleteI'll have to dig back into the files. If I find it, I'll post it for compare/contrast. If I'm not too ashamed of it.
Delete'Post it for compare/contrast'! Yes, no shame in that! Bring it. Or dig for it. Or bring back from the ashes. O, forget it.
DeleteNice, Travis. "Hope to bear" is especially evocative--great title for a book or a poem.
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