Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century » Tess Gallagher http://www.riehlife.com Creating connections through the arts and across cultures Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:35:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Riehlife Poem of the Day:Tess Gallagher’s “Yes” http://www.riehlife.com/2009/04/25/riehlife-poem-of-the-daytess-gallaghers-yes/ http://www.riehlife.com/2009/04/25/riehlife-poem-of-the-daytess-gallaghers-yes/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:51:13 +0000 riehlife http://www.riehlife.com/?p=2262 Yes
by Tess Gallagher
from Moon Crossing River

Now we are like that flat cone of sand
in the garden of the Silver Pavilion in Kyoto
designed to appear only in moonlight.

Do you want me to mourn?
Do you want me to wear black?

Or like moonlight on whitest sand
to use your dark, to gleam, to shimmer?

I gleam. I mourn.

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