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Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

  • “These days I'm suspecting grief over you is / a metaphor for grief in me. I used to think I / made a metaphor out of every fact to screen / you. Then I suspected there actually were facts, or / it was advantageous to imagine there were, but / now I draw from actual longing a longing locus / where any dry leaf clatters against the windowpane / in a web.”

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, U.S. poet

(1947)