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Franz Wright
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Before you were I loved youand when you were born
and when you took your first step
Although I did not know
good luck I want to say
lone penguin keep sturdily waddling
in the direction of those frozen mountains sister
of desolate sanctity
I want to scream
Although I did not know you
I loved you later on
as just a weedy thing
a little skeleton I loved
Both long pre-you a child myself
and as a man in retrospect
I loved and I was there
while they were raping you
I loved although
like God
that’s all that I could do—
© 2009, Franz Wright
From: Poetry, Vol. 195, No. 3, December
Publisher: Poetry, Chicago
From: Poetry, Vol. 195, No. 3, December
Publisher: Poetry, Chicago
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Before you were I loved youand when you were born
and when you took your first step
Although I did not know
good luck I want to say
lone penguin keep sturdily waddling
in the direction of those frozen mountains sister
of desolate sanctity
I want to scream
Although I did not know you
I loved you later on
as just a weedy thing
a little skeleton I loved
Both long pre-you a child myself
and as a man in retrospect
I loved and I was there
while they were raping you
I loved although
like God
that’s all that I could do—
From: Poetry, Vol. 195, No. 3, December
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