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. Visitors from Abroad
2. Celestial Music
3. The Fear of Burial
4. Archaic Fragment
5. Odysseus' Decision

George Crabbe The Wish ("My Mira, shepherds, is as fair")

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