Showing posts with label "Voices". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Voices". Show all posts

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

A Poem, More or Less (after Porchia)*


One can never say enough— 
It has to be less or more, 
Till what’s left is just 
What you’re looking for. 


 *The catalyst for the above: 

     “Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do 
not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use 
to me.” 

--from “Voices,” translated by W.S. Merwin, Big Table Publishing Company: Chicago, 1969.
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