Some nights a whole poem is too much, but it gives up one sentence so perfect you want to paint it on all your doorframes and tattoo it on your ribs.

…What rage for order
disordered her pilgrimage—so that for years at a time

she would hide among strangers, waiting
to rearrange all mysteries in a new light.

(yes, again Levertov, from “Olga Poems”)

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