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
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- From Paumanok Starting. by Walt Whitman
- I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
- Олег Григорьев – Ты боишься высоты
- Sonnet 01
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- The Solitary by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Гумилев – Кенгуру
- A Magic Moment I Remember poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- After a Tempest by William Cullen Bryant
- The Door Of Humility poem – Alfred Austin
- Vacillation by William Butler Yeats
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
