🌬️ Mark Strand | Orpheus Alone
Highly recommend listening to his reading of it on Poetry Foundation
In the houses of friends, with his head back, his eyes / Closed, trying to will her return, but finding / Only himself, again and again, trapped / In the chill of his loss, and, finally, / Without a word, taking off to wander the hills / Outside of town, where he stayed until he had shaken / The image of love and put in its place the world / As he wished it would be