I became interested in
Li-Young Lee's poetry after my American Lit professor played a recording of Lee speaking at a BYU forum. I loved the recording so much that I downloaded it onto my ipod and now I listen to it on nights when I have so many thoughts running around in my head that I can't still my mind and fall asleep. I was going to give you the link so you could hear the forum, but for some reason it's not online anymore. This isn't the same, but if you go
here you can push the play button and hear Lee in an interview.
Below is a poem Lee read at the forum that I can't find online. Enjoy :)
"Living With Her"
She opens her eyes
and I see.
She counts the birds and I hear
the names of the months and days.
A girl, one of her names
is Change. And my childhood
lasted all of an evening.
Called light, she breathes, my living share
of every moment emerging.
Called life, she is a pomegranate
pecked clean by birds to entirely
become a part of their flying.
Do you love me? she asks.
I love you,
she answers, and the world keeps beginning.
