“Break two eggs into a bowl / or break a bowl into two eggs. Slip into a coffin / after the fluids have been drained, or better yet, / slide into the fire.”
— Jim Harrison
I wake to find it is the birthday of one of my favorite poets — it gives me the chance to share one of my heart’s poems: Seamus Heaney’s Postscript. I’ve carried it with me for as long as I can remember.