A poem by Mark Strand.

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A poem by Mark Strand.

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To Be Witnesses
“We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are — as far as we know — the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness. We might have come along
https://alexandersmap.com/2022/12/04/to-be-witnesses/
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Begin Today With the End in Mind
Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end,Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem likeWhen he’s held by the sea’s roar, motionless, there at the end,Or what he shall hope for once it is clear that he’ll never go back.When the time has passed to prune the rose or caress the cat,When the sunse
https://alexandersmap.com/2022/12/03/begin-today-with-the-end-in-mind/
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If any of you were at that Louise Glück online reading I posted about earlier & like me are now curious about the Mark Strand book of prose poems she mentioned ('Almost Invisible'), here is an extract from it I found online

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/215194/almost-invisible-by-mark-strand/9780375712180/excerpt

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