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Wednesday 13 January 2010

What We Want

What we want

is never simple.

We move among the things

we thought we wanted

and these things bear our names-

now they want us.

But what we want appears

in dreams, wearing disguises.

We fall past,

holding out our arms

and in the morning

our arms ache.

We don't remember the dream

but the dream remembers us.

It is there all day

as an animal is there

under the table,

as the stars are there

even in full sun.

Linda Pastan

2 comments:

vmichelle said...: Sometimes I forget how much I love poetry. Thanks for reminding me. My favorite excerpt:

"What we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises."; 13 January 2010 at 06:38
Gena said...: Lovely poem,somehow you always choose the ones that seem to resonate with me xx; 13 January 2010 at 23:36