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A review by moonpix
True Stories by Margaret Atwood
4.0
One of the few writers who is both a great novelist and a great poet! Writing here on absences, ambiguities, and water.
Favorites: True Stories, Postcard, Petit Nevis, Small Poems for the Winter Solstice, Flying Inside Your Own Body, Trainride Vienna-Bonn, Notes Towards a Poem that can Never be Written, Earth, Variation on the Word Sleep, Rain
"A universe that includes you
can't be all bad, but
does it? At this distance
you're a mirage, a glossy image
fixed in the posture
of the last time I saw you.
Turn you over, there's the place
for the address. Wish you were
here. Love comes
in waves like the ocean, a sickness which goes on
& on, a hollow cave
in the head, filling & pounding, a kicked ear."
Favorites: True Stories, Postcard, Petit Nevis, Small Poems for the Winter Solstice, Flying Inside Your Own Body, Trainride Vienna-Bonn, Notes Towards a Poem that can Never be Written, Earth, Variation on the Word Sleep, Rain
"A universe that includes you
can't be all bad, but
does it? At this distance
you're a mirage, a glossy image
fixed in the posture
of the last time I saw you.
Turn you over, there's the place
for the address. Wish you were
here. Love comes
in waves like the ocean, a sickness which goes on
& on, a hollow cave
in the head, filling & pounding, a kicked ear."