“Is prayer then, the proper attitude
for the mind that longs to be freely blown,
but which gets snagged on the barb
called world, that
tooth-ache, the actual?”
Li-Young Lee, from “The City in Which I Love You” in The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, LTd., 1990), the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1990.
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