ANOTHER PLACE
Mark Strand - USA
Mark Strand is the American Poet Laureate. This poem is taken from his SELECTED POEMS 1992 published by Knopf USA.
I've chosen it this month because it is helping me to feel what I am feeling and would rather not.
I walk
into what light
there is
not enough for blindness
or clear sight
of what is to come
yet I see
the water
the single boat
the man standing
he is not someone I know
this is another place
what light there is
spreads like a net
over nothing
what is to come
has come to this
before
this is the mirror
in which pain is asleep
this is the country
nobody visits.
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