A Bit of WONDERMENT

Published September 20, 2021 by Nan Mykel

I resonated to Wislawa Szymborska’s poem Wonderment which I happened upon in the bookcase next to my chair, in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts, Princeton Paperbacks 1981Since I’m not clear on all the flavors of the copyright law I’ll only share a portion, for your education:

WONDERMENT

Why to excess then in one single person?

This one not that?  And why am I here?

On a day that’s a Tuesday?  In a house not a nest?

In skin not in scales? With a face not a leaf?

Why only once in my very own person?

Precisely on earth?  Under that little star?….

(The poet was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature).

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