Academy of American Poets
View Cart | Log In 
Subscribe | More Info 
Find a Poet or Poem
Advanced Search >
Want more poems?
Subscribe to our
Poem-A-Day emails.
FURTHER READING
Related Poems
Come Slowly—Eden (211)
by Emily Dickinson
Little Ending
by Charles Wright
Magdalena Remembering
by Maureen Gibbon
If My Voice Is Not Reaching You
by Afzal Ahmed Syed
Sponsor a Poet Page | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print

Magdalene Poem

 
by John Taggart

Love enters the body 

enters 
almost 
almost completely breaks and enters into the body 

already beaten and broken 

peaceful if breaking if breaking 
and entering the already broken is peaceful 

untouchable fortunately 
untouchable.






From Is Music by John Taggart. Copyright © 2010 by John Taggart. Used by permission of the Copper Canyon Press.
Larger TypeLarger Type | Home | Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 1997 - 2013 by Academy of American Poets.