Hirsch, "Poems to Break Your Heart" 에서 (2)

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Edward Hirsch, 100 Poems to Break Your Heart 에서 (2)

 

 

Merciful God,

Choose another people,

Elect another.

We are tired of death and dying,

We have no more prayers.

Choose another people,

Elect another,

We have no more blood

To be sacrifice.

Our house has becoe a desert.

The earth is insufficient for our graves,

No more laments for us,

No more dirges

In the old, holy books.

 

            --- Kadya Molodowsky, "Merciful God" (1945) 첫 연

 

 

 

 

... I have lived with them  fifty years,

we have lived with them fifty million years,

and now they are going, almost gone. I don't know

if the animals are capable of reproach.

But clearly they do not bother to say good-bye.

 

            --- Hayden Carruth, "Essay" (1978)에서

 

 

 

Look up into the light of the lantern.

Don't you see? The calm of darkness

is the horror of Heaven.

 

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I need to wake you, to remind you that there isn't a future

That's why we are free. And now some weekness in me

has been cured forever, so I'm not compelled

to close my eyes, to go back, to rectify ---

 

            --- Louise Glück, "Night Song" (1983)에서