Poem by Louise Glück

The Wish

Remember that time you made the wish?

I make a lot of wishes.

The time I lied to you
about the butterfly. I always wondered
what you wished for.

What do you think I wished for?

I don't know. That I'd come back,
that we'd somehow be together in the end.

I wished for what I always wish for.
I wished for another poem.

1. Lullaby
2. Mother and Child
3. A Myth of Devotion
4. Parable of the Hostages
5. The Racer's Widow

Ella Wilcox The Wish ("Should some great angel say to me to-morrow")

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