Poet and critic Dana Gioia recites his poem "Beware of Things in Duplicate" from his 1986 collection of poetry "Daily Horoscope". The poem talks about the menacing possibility existing in everyday objects around you. Gioia recorded this video in his studio in Sonoma County, California.
The poem is reprinted in his most recent collection of poetry "99 Poems: New & Selected," which you can buy here - goo.gl/hwtQwq
"Beware of Things in Duplicate" by Dana Gioia
Beware of things in duplicate:
a set of knives, the cufflinks in a drawer,
the dice, the pair of Queens, the eyes
of someone sitting next to you.
Attend that empty minute in the evening
when looking at the clock, you see
its hands are fixed on the same hour
you noticed at your morning coffee.
These are the moments to beware
when there is nothing so familiar
or so close that it cannot betray you:
a twin, an extra key, an echo,
your own reflection in the glass.
16 окт 2024
