Crossroads (by Louise Glück)
Original Text:
Louise Glück, A Village Life (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009).
This
poem is reproduced on the Griffin Prize Web Site (from a volume on the 2010 International Shortlist).
1My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
2I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,
The rest of the poem cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.RPO poem Editors:
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition:
2011