March 21, 2017

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017)



And I answer, Anna,
twenty years after,
a man lives half of life,
the second half is memory,

the first half, hesitation
for what should have happened
but could not, or

what happened with others
when it should not

~from Another Life


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