Monday, September 2, 2013

entering

...what happens next
Is undiminished for having happened once,
Twice, ten, a thousand times before.
Who cares if all the music that transpires
Is the fall of grit or dry seeds through a cactus?
You are like a rich man entering heaven
Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again.

-Seamus Heaney, from The Rainstick

in honor, courtesy poetryeater

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