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Welcome! This is a blog about literature and books that are critical to any social discourse: literary, cultural, racial, gender-based. A blog for humanists, scholars, the curious, and thinkers and thinkeresses.

Gennadiy Aygi

 

 

My Daughter’s First Week

Gennady Aygi

the quietness

where the child is--seems uneven

within limits--of fragile lightshadows: emptiness!--for

   the world Grows

in her--to Listen

to Itself

in its Fullness

22 January 1983

 

 

from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-daughters-first-week