domingo, 16 de fevereiro de 2014

The Uses of Poetry


This was a day when I did nothing,
aside from reading the newspaper,
taking both breakfast and lunch by myself
in the kitchen, dozing after lunch
until the middle of the afternoon. Then
I read one poem by Zbigniew Herbert
in which he thanked God for the many beautiful
things in this world, in a voice so absurdly
truthful, the entire wrecked day was redeemed.


HARVEY SHAPIRO
The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems
Wesleyan University Press

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