Sundays

The wrong question, and the point

“What do we have to appease the great forces?

And I think in the end this was the question

that destroyed Agamemnon, there on the beach,

the Greek ships at the ready, the sea

invisible beyond the serene harbor, the future

lethal, unstable: he was a fool, thinking

it could be controlled. He should have said

I have nothing, I am at your mercy.”

—from “The Empty Glass,” Louise Glück

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“so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens”

—“The Red Wheelbarrow,” William Carlos Williams