National Poetry Month: "Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood
April is National Poetry Month! I adore poetry, though I read less of it that I used to. I think this month I'll make an effort to reverse that trend as I hunt up poems and post them here. I'll aim for at least two a week throughout April, perhaps more if time allows and the inclination remains
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Okay, a poem to share. This poem by Janos Pilinszky has always been very striking and viscerally potent to me.
Fable
Once upon a time
there was a lonely wolf
lonelier than the angels.
He happened to come to a village.
He fell in love with the first house he saw.
Already he loved its walls
the caresses of its bricklayers.
But the windows stopped him.
In the room sat people.
Apart from God nobody ever
found them so beautiful
as this child-like beast.
So at night he went into the house.
He stopped in the middle of the room
and never moved from there any more.
He stood all through the night, with wide eyes
and on into the morning when he was beaten to death.
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