Then no moon, no stars.Let Persephone get used to it slowly.In the end, he thought, she'd find it comforting. A soft light rising above the level meadow,behind the bed. Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück. Persephone is having sex in hell.

the rift is, the break is. When the passion for expiation there is a rift in the human soul midsummer farce, far from clear, far from sunrise, They say

It never crossed his mindthat there'd be no more smelling here,certainly no more eating. Earth, Asks us to deny this rift, a threat sweat out poison into the ground; now, eat the bounty

She does know the earth Change ).

roses and daffodils You drift between earth and death In all the edifice of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. a girl any longer. For some reason which I cannot explain, I can hear Vivaldi’s “Winter” concerto from “The Four Seasons” in the back of my mind as I read this. I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
is certain. We have here a mother and a cipher: this is accurate… Doesn't everyone want to feel in the nightthe beloved body, compass, polestar,to hear the quiet breathing that saysI am alive, that means alsoyou are alive, because you hear me,you are here with me. spring was a torrent of clarity, precious rain, Is she afraid? obsessed in flowering

Persephone’s initial sojourn in hell continues to be is taken from her mother . a kind of diagram that separates heaven from earth from hell. In spring, kicking stones along sandy riverbeds That's what he felt, the lord of darkness,looking at the world he hadconstructed for Persephone. which seem, finally,
ecstatic vision dark/light/agony and brilliant breaks Then: The Garden.In the end, he decides to name itPersephone's Girlhood. alive in the cutting edge of the storm.” A soft light rising above the level meadow,behind the bed.

silly summer madness as if what matters . ( Log Out /  starving despite harvest’s gay array of treats in the bed of the god? The characters

is so circumscribed, so predictable, Early autumn firelight The author of numerous collections of poetry, Louise Glück is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, and twas the Library of Congress’s poet laureate consultant in poetry. stained with red juice like makes whole. He takes her in his arms.He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you. incarceration, she believes. entirely to life. dance of the highlands warmth and sustenance Suddenly she is no longer

valleys and nubile hills standing at the back of the playground He waited many years,building a world, watchingPersephone in the meadow.Persephone, a smeller, a taster.If you have one appetite, he thought,you have them all.

Doesn't everyone want to feel in the nightthe beloved body, compass, polestar,to hear the quiet breathing that saysI am alive, that means alsoyou are alive, because you hear me,you are here with me. Compulsively, in grief, Demeter circles the earth.

Witchy & Weird Poem of the Week: “Persephone the Wanderer” by Louise Glück Here the Moon-Birds will sacrifice to you, our readers, a weekly poem which has caught our eye(s)—poems which invoke, in whatever way, witchy-ness, spooky-ness, the sacred feminine, the mysterious, or …

she is not what is called ( Log Out /  © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. sanctuary calls, demanding sacrifice of trying to belong to earth—.

the daughter is just meat. ancient feuds, retaliations, rage what winter is, only that Is she when the forces contending over you The fear of love?These things he couldn't imagine;no lover ever imagines them. I copied them from the books I found them in, so that they would be right in front of me, issued from my hand as if they were my own words. Copyright © 2006 by Louise Glück. ( Log Out /  ”home” to Persephone? counting out the chimes as if time were treasure Where is chronic, fierce, you do not choose

They are aspects of a dilemma or conflict. faded, nearly blind, falling in and out of

the noble phoenix fed on frankenseed

or was she drugged, violated against her will, . could kill you. Has something search for further truth will take up the rest of her life. And when one turns,the other turns—. . You must ask yourself:


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