Showing posts with label Jericho Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jericho Brown. Show all posts

Monday, April 8, 2013

Another Elegy (Jericho Brown)

Another Elegy by Jericho Brown --

I love the first line: "To believe in God is to love / What none can see." I like how the poem takes that idea to how one can love a person who no longer lives or who has left the relationship.  That their absence does not lesson the love felt.

I like that the poem is an elegy - a written testimony to something that is not there. That creative work is the result of love for the unseen.

Favorite line: "Let a lover go, / Let him . . . die / Without a signature"
To believe in God is to love
What none can see.