A staggeringly, breathtakingly, exquisitely beautiful poem.

Pierre gave me Louise Glück's "Faithful and Virtuous Night," for my birthday and we're slowly reading it to one another.

Her poems are so beautifully rendered that any description I give it will only detract from the experience of reading it.

This morning I read, alone, aloud, for a third and fourth time, "An Adventure."  There is a part, in the middle of reading 3, that I turned the page and the words that were there made me gasp.



If you're so inclined, read the poem aloud.  Read it slowly.  Read it a few times, maybe over a few days, or the course of the day.  And see if it is not among the most beautiful and true things you have ever read.