The Gate
by Marie Howe
I had no idea that the gate I would step through
to finally enter this world
would be the space my brother’s body made. He was
a little taller than me: a young man
but grown, himself by then,
done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet,
rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold
and running water.
This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me.
And I’d say, What?
And he’d say, This—holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich.
And I’d say, What?
And he’d say, This, sort of looking around.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Не увлекайтесь нами
- No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Taking Off by Satish Verma
- Who by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Все буржуи мчат на помощь Врангелю… (РОСТА №410)
- Олег Бундур – Сухари
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- When The Two Sisters Go To Fetch Water by Rabindranath Tagore
- Низами Гянджеви – Тропы мне ни в духан, ни к богу нету
- Family Caregivers Have Promises to Keep
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чем больше в мире я живу
- Eclogue:–The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
- Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard by William Wordsworth
- It’s no use by Sappho
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
