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Monolithos Quotes
Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982
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Jack Gilbert278 ratings, 4.29 average rating, 23 reviews
Monolithos Quotes
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“Alone on Christmas Eve in Japan”
Not wanting to lose it all for poetry.
Wanting to live the living. All this year
looking on the graveyard below my apartment.
Holding myself tenderly in this marred body.
Wondering if the quiet I feel is that happiness
wise people speak of, or the modulation
that is the acquiescence to death beginning.”
― Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982
Not wanting to lose it all for poetry.
Wanting to live the living. All this year
looking on the graveyard below my apartment.
Holding myself tenderly in this marred body.
Wondering if the quiet I feel is that happiness
wise people speak of, or the modulation
that is the acquiescence to death beginning.”
― Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982
“Hunger"
Digging into the apple
with my thumbs
scraping out the clogged nails
and digging deeper
refusing the moon color.
Refusing the smell of memories.
Digging in with the sweet jucie
running along my hands unpleasantly.
Refusing the sweetness.
Turning my hands to gouge out chunks.
Feeling the jucie sticky
on my wrist. The skin itching.
Getting to the wooden part.
Getting the seeds.
Going on.
Not taking anyone's word for it.
Getting beyond the seeds.”
― Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982
Digging into the apple
with my thumbs
scraping out the clogged nails
and digging deeper
refusing the moon color.
Refusing the smell of memories.
Digging in with the sweet jucie
running along my hands unpleasantly.
Refusing the sweetness.
Turning my hands to gouge out chunks.
Feeling the jucie sticky
on my wrist. The skin itching.
Getting to the wooden part.
Getting the seeds.
Going on.
Not taking anyone's word for it.
Getting beyond the seeds.”
― Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982
