This poem is taken from PN Review 248, Volume 45 Number 6, July - August 2019.
Two Poems
Candles
What are they yearning for?
Where are their bodies going,
disappearing without dying
under their rising souls?
Do you think, now we
abandon them, they will
live with us as symbols?
...
What are they yearning for?
Where are their bodies going,
disappearing without dying
under their rising souls?
Do you think, now we
abandon them, they will
live with us as symbols?
...
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