Last night… 

Stephen Kuusisto, Letters to Borges

I wept in a dream

But when day came I said

I slept well—and my boat

Drifted to Hades

With bread and flowers

The urgencies

In a common room

Sunlight crossing the rug

My dead mother

Waving from the reeds

Author: skuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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