Sunday, March 9, 2014

WHEN WAS THE LAST 
TIME YOU WEPT?

Poem for Today - March 8, 2014



ESPECIALLY IN WEEPING

Especially in weeping
the soul reveals
its presence
and through secret pressure
changes sorrow into water.
The first budding of the spirit
is in the tear,
a slow and transparent word.
Then following this elemental alchemy
thought turns itself into substance
as real as a stone or an arm.
And there is nothing uneasy in the liquid
except the mineral
anguish of matter.


© Dana Gioia
Translated from
the Italian of
Valerio Magrelli

Painting: Woman 
Weeping, Rembrandt



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