This is Episode 77 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's poem is "What the Living Do", by Marie Howe.

Marie Howe is an American poet. She has published four collections of poetry. Interestingly, to me at least, she has published just one collection every nine or ten years, towards the end of each decade since the 1980s. This poem, "What The Living Do", is from her 1997 collection of the same name.

The starting point and the end point of Poems of the Speed of Life is poems and life. Maybe more than any other poem I’ve read here, this is exactly that: a poem about what life is, a poem about what living is. Life might be often tedious or hard, occasionally unbearably so, but it is life, and sometimes, if we’re lucky, we might be presented with our own reflection in glass and discover that we cherish the imperfect vision we see.

⁠⁠You can read the poem here⁠⁠⁠.

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