On Sundays, I walk my neighbor's dog so she can go to church to pray for her sick mother. The dog waits for me in the doorway. Summer and winter we walk the same road. Early morning at the base of the escarpment. Sometimes the dog gets away from me. For a moment or two I can't see him behind some trees. He's very proud of this. This trick he brings out occasionally and gives up again as a favor to me
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:51
Gunjan, I feel like I gifted myself a moment in my afternoon to listen to your reading of this beautiful poem. I invited Catherine Coles because she's been doing some poetry of Louise as well. This poem, I just feel, is so timely for anybody who's in transition. This idea of becoming and this surrender and this also melancholy around what we have to choose and what we don't have to choose. And just bringing voice to things that you never think about what their voice is
So after listening this particular swell, I have decided I'll also check about this writer and try to go through her works and it's really great to learn about her and the kind of poems that she write. And first of all, thank you so much because the wide range of collection of poems that you cover and the kind of themes that you come up, it are really amazing. And I do enjoy everything and I learn a lot every time from the swells that you post
Gunjan Joshi
@Bibliophile · 1:17
Hello, Deborah. Thank you for your generous words. And as you very rightly said, that this poem depicts the transition of a human being from one phase of life to another. It can be from adolescence to adulthood or from an old age to death. So human being fears transition in any form or at any stage of life. And, and the beauty of Gluck's poems is that she makes us aware of the darkness we encounter during these transitions
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 3:05
Hello Gunjan, thank you very much for the invite and what a wonderful, quaint narration of this poem by Louise GLCk. So I discovered her through you and I also figured out that she recently passed away. Too much of our sadness, you know, as I was listening to your poetry narration, I also googled its image and I was reading as I listened to you and your narration. Now, I can be wrong
Gunjan Joshi
@Bibliophile · 5:00
What I admire about Gluck's poetry is the fact that she writes about very real themes bordering towards nihilism, and the real themes she writes on, real themes such as death, disease, transition, which I find very, very beautiful because there is no useless paraphernalia and flowery metaphors to beautify the Enigma called life. So I just love her poems for the brutal realism it serves
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 3:19
And because of you, I also started reading some of her other poems also, and I would have to read them and reread them to be able to understand them in bits and pieces, I guess. And I completely agree with you on the point that our work drives us yechis to Haiki Mujebi if I'm not reading, if I'm not studying to Mujabhat Kali lagna Lakhta Sadba or right now I am in sort of a sabbatical phase