Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard is a video series produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard to offer beauty, comfort and connection. Here is poet and Harvard Professor of English Jorie Graham reading "Poem." You can read the poem below.
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“Poem”
By Jorie Graham
(used with the author's permission)
The earth said
remember me.
The earth said
don’t let go,
said it one day
when I was
accidentally
listening, I
heard it, I felt it
like temperature,
all said in a
whisper-build to-
morrow, make right be-
fall, you are not
free, other scenes
are not taking
place, time is not filled,
time is not late, there is
a thing the emptiness
needs as you need
emptiness, it
shrinks from light again &
again, although all things
are present, a
fact a day a
bird that warps the
arithmetic of per-
fection with its
arc, passing again &
again in the evening
air, in the pre-
vailing wind, making no
mistake-yr in-
difference is yr
principal beauty
the mind says all the
time-I hear it-I
hear it every-
where. The earth
said remember
me. I am the
earth it said. Re-
member me.