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Out of Context Louise Glück

@glucknocontext

A celebration of the writing of poet and essayist Louise Glück. Feminist AF

 New York, NY
poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-gluck
Joined November 2017
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eager for sensation
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Some people are pigs; I make them
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your voice is sand scattered in wind.
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I have nothing, I am at your mercy.
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The little cat is dead (so the song went).
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Joy is sleeping like a baby.
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they bickered awhile, in the fading light,
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lethal, unstable: he was a fool, thinking
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in my case there was no obstacle (for the sake of argument)
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Who would call in the middle of the night?
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He must be very close,
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while the spontaneous male
Sad tricks with ladders and shoes,
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Now nothing escapes, nothing enters—
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The city — the city is where I disappear.
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its peevish throbbing had ceased some hours before.
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breathing is an intrusion.
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the female studied the male; she dallied
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alone, afraid, unable to influence fate—
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Bravo! the door is shut.
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I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.
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