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Dec 18, 2022 2 min

"Snowdrops" by Louise Glück

from The Devotions Podcast Hosted by Tara

afraid, yes, but among you again Hi friends, Today’s poem is “Snowdrops” by Louise Glück* Here it is copied below: Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn't expect to waken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring-- afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy in the raw wind of the new world. Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year :-) Love always. <3 Tara (P.S. Sorry for the quality of this recording — it was recorded on my phone as I’m still at home with my family and away from my roommate’s fancy microphone. LOL.) *from The Wild Iris by Louise Glück, published by Ecco Press, 1992. Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this collection in 1993.

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