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Yusef Komunyakaa — Praising Dark Places
Poetry Unbound
Is Light Always a Metaphor for Good, and Is Dark Always a Metaphor for Difficult?
This poem is responding to the curiosity in poetry, in public language, in religion. Is light always a metaphor for good, and is dark always a metaphors for difficulty? And this poem is exploring that through the curiosity of a child and then the adult reflections of that grown up child. It's an invitation into mag ficent subtlety and magnificent ambivolence. This poem is saying, we live in a situation of profound ambivlance. What do you need? What happens for you? How do we go about this?
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