February 26, 2008

a poem from Wideawake Field

Tigers

What are we now but voices
who promise each other a life
neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting won't make it so.
We cling to a vine
at the cliff's edge.
There are tiger above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.

- Eliza Griswold

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