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What We Want



What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names--
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there
even in full sun.



-Linda Pastan


                                         

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Poems

     

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  • ram
    17 lines, 12 comments, October 11
  • wish
    22 lines, 19 comments, September 23
  • eisenhower park
    35 lines, 18 comments, August 1
  • commonplace
    20 lines, 21 comments, July 11
 

 

 

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  • suddenly
    18 lines, 42 comments, February 15
  • small poem
    16 lines, 41 comments, January 4, 2008
  • Rain
    13 lines, 44 comments, February 19, 2007
  • writing backward
    81 lines, 44 comments, October 14, 2006
 

 

 

                                 

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                         A poet is like a bird. He chirps no matter what twig he

                        lands on and mistakes the rustle of leaves for applause.

 

                                                                                            - Joseph Brodsky

 

 

 

 

 

Stuff people said to me:

 

 

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  • tara wilson on November 4
    what a beautiful page. i love 'smoke' - it's phenomenal where we can take ourselves via poem, on the fuel of life and love.
  • Rowan on September 26
    I love coming into your room... lol.
    Mark Strand is great. Have you read Douglas Goetsch? I think you'd like him.
    Hope you find time to write more. Miss
    your style.
    Kathleen
  • tara wilson on September 21
    i do love this poem though... there's no point in changing who you are to the core to make people love you.
    what a great poem...

  • Cat on September 12
    I am trying to decide between bugging you for a new poem or a new page....
    i'll taunt you with my decision when i make it..

 


 

 

 

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