“Tonight I walked,
lost in my own meditation,
…the labyrinth
that I have made of love and self…”
lost in my own meditation,
…the labyrinth
that I have made of love and self…”
Mark Strand (1934-2014)
Poet Laureate of the United States
I wrapped my mind around this image of an accessible labyrinth
of life, an indelible mixing of the impulses of love and the mandates of self-awareness,
with many ways in, and no need for a way out….
The excerpt is from “For Jessica, My Daughter” in his Collected Poems (Knopf, 2014).
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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