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Why Are Your Poems So Dark?

Isn't the moon dark too,  
most of the time?  

And doesn't the white page  
seem unfinished  

without the dark stain  
of alphabets?  

When God demanded light,  
he didn't banish darkness.  

Instead he invented  
ebony and crows  

and that small mole  
on your left cheekbone.  

Or did you mean to ask  
"Why are you sad so often?"  

Ask the moon.  
Ask what it has witnessed.

BY LINDA PASTAN

That is fucking brilliant.
Where did you run across this?