Myrtle - A Cento Poem
Beyond the waste of broad, muddy fields
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet
Otherwise
I can't stand my own mind
What in me he was, and who
We are, I am, you are
You made me want to be a saint
And there is no one
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see
Would let their wisdom be the whole of love
And when we meet at any time again
I refuse to give up my obsession.
[poems used: Allen Ginsberg - 'America', William Carlos Williams - 'Spring and All', Wallace Stevens - 'The Idea of Order at Key West', Denise Levertov - 'Uncertain Oneiromancy', Adrienne Rich - 'Diving into the Wreck', James Merill - 'The World and the Child', William Shakespeare - 'Sonnet 18', Michael Drayton - 'Farewell to Love']
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