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May 20, 2005

Page history last edited by Arabella Napier 15 years, 4 months ago

 

 

 

 

Love after Love

The time will come

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here.  Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine.  Give bread.  Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit.  Feast on your life.

 

                            -- Derek Walcott

 

 

PLEASE JOIN US IN A DISCUSSION OF THIS POEM WITH AMANDA FIELD, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE LITERARY JOURNAL ZYZZYVA

FRIDAY, MAY 20th – 4:00pm

FLO MO MAIN LOUNGE

 

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