#tess gallagher

[apoemaday]

Opening

by Tess Gallagher

I entered this world not wanting to come. I'll leave it not wanting to go. All this while, when it seemed there were two doors, there was only one -- this passing through.

[noodledesk]

I Stop Writing the Poem by Tess Gallagher

[majestativa]

The path I follow is a knife blade.

— LILIANA URSU ⚜️ The Sky Behind the Forest: Selected Poems, transl. by Liliana Ursu with Adam J. Sorkin & Tess Gallagher, (1997)

[salamanderinspace]

[poetrybeautymadness]

Opening

Words by Tess Gallagher

Image: collage by Hugo Barros

[bluewillowmoon]

I entered this world not wanting

to come. I’ll leave it not

wanting to go. All this while,

when it seemed there were two doors,

there was only one—this

                                       passing through.

-- Tess Gallagher, “Opening,” Is, Is Not: Poems, Graywolf Press, 2019         

[shy-girl04]

The best love poems confirm something we secretly felt but never said.

Tess Gallagher

[havingapoemwithyou]

choices by Tess Gallagher