“Father has his arm around Tereze.
She squints. My thumb
is in my mouth: my fifth autumn.
Near the copper beech
the spaniel dozes in shadows.
Not one of us does not avert his eyes.”

—  Louise Glück

Source: "Still Life", The House on Marshland (1975)

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American poet 1943–2023

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