Friday, September 5, 2014

9.4.14

Something simple to go against the wildness out there today. From Gwendolyn Brooks:


my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell



I hold my honey and I store my bread   
In little jars and cabinets of my will.   
I label clearly, and each latch and lid   
I bid, Be firm till I return from hell.   
I am very hungry. I am incomplete.
And none can tell when I may dine again.   
No man can give me any word but Wait,   
The puny light. I keep eyes pointed in;   
Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt   
Drag out to their last dregs and I resume   
On such legs as are left me, in such heart   
As I can manage, remember to go home,
My taste will not have turned insensitive   
To honey and bread old purity could love.

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