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with Jesus

Christian Wiman (b. 1966)

Music Maybe

Too many elegies elevating sadness
to a kind of sad religion:

one wants in the end just once to befriend
one’s own loneliness,

to make of the ache of inwardness—

something,
music maybe,

or even just believing in it,
and summer,

and the long room alone
where the child

chances on a bee
banging against the glass

like an attack of happiness.

From Once in the West: Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014).



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