We are only midway through the central verse of our youth w… - Anne Carson

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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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Alternative Names: Anne Patricia Carson

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I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you — in your way?” he asked. I am still thinking about that.

Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.

And now time is rushing towards them

where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces,

night at their back.

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