The Gate
by Marie Howe
I had no idea that the gate I would step through
to finally enter this world
would be the space my brother’s body made. He was
a little taller than me: a young man
but grown, himself by then,
done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet,
rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold
and running water.
This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me.
And I’d say, What?
And he’d say, This—holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich.
And I’d say, What?
And he’d say, This, sort of looking around.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
- Earth’s Answer by William Blake
- Владимир Агатов – Бессмертный Ленинград
- Владимир Британишский – Кипренский. Портрет С.С. Уварова 1816 год
- Альфред де Мюссе – Да, женщины, тут нет ошибки
- Георгий Иванов – А может быть, еще и не конец
- Phantom by Samuel Coleridge
- On The Loss Of The “Royal George” by William Cowper
- Personal Talk by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чатырдаг
- Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
- The Dead Woman
- The Aquittal Of Phryne poem – Alfred Austin
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