an almost accidental gathering of poets
 
   
 
 
Denise Levertov
 
The Secret
Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who donīt know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than one week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem, I love them
for finding what
I canīt find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that most of all.
   
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