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January Afternoon, With Billie Holiday ...The foolish old songs were right, the heart does, actually, ache from trying to push beyond itself... all t… - Lisel Mueller
" "January Afternoon,
With Billie Holiday
...The foolish old songs were right,
the heart does, actually, ache
from trying to push beyond
itself...
all that can be imagined;
space is not enough...
Desire has no object, it simply happens,
rises and floats, lighter than air—
but she knows that. ...
tomorrow is something she remembers.
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About Lisel Mueller
(born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. Her family fled the Nazi regime, and she arrived in the U.S. in 1939 at the age of 15. She worked as a literary critic and taught at the , Elmhurst College and . She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study. She received awards including the in 1981 and the for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet awarded that prize.
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A Grackle Observed
Watching the black grackle
come out...
into the sun, I am dazzled
by an unsuspected sheen,
yellow, purple and green,
...until he, unaware
of what he means...
hops back...
and leaves the shining part
...behind, as though
brightness must outgrow
its... worldly dress
and enter the mind...
as vision... pure light.
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The Blind Leading the Blind
Take my hand. There are two of us in this cave.
The sound you hear is water; you will hear it forever.
...You will learn toads from diamonds, the fist from the palm,
love from the sweat of love, falling from flying.
...Once I fell off a precipice. Once I found gold.
...There are two of us here. Touch me.
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