from In Return
by Lisa Donovan
A manuscript in progress born out of the correspondences (epistolary and thought) of Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt.
When set aside the fact, still occasionally raging storm, rose’s bloom
When a single friendship drew from these, man’s nature
When of a way framed of none whatsoever, river
When occasionally, with such sacrifice, we are
in relationship
what startling
in opinion, these
meadows wait
to his forever
framed
When I am looking forward tell me how you live
When the letter tells me, this history, hours, your eyes
When what is entirely seems, tell me
When this summer, and as merry as you were, burned copper brown
When the innermost, purest part can lose yourself
When in humility, expressed greater than an essence of eternity
When as silence dark trees and hoof-beats all happen into something
When how I’ve made you suffer
When we achieve, belong to ours, others
When to offer oneself, air, soft evening
When hope, unthreatened, down this lonely street
When the two questions
a significant object, in
reflection, the short world
asserts, might condition
in beginnings, the process
may teach, world when
appearance, everywhere,
appearance, approached
discarded, becomes they
became
Lisa Donovan is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Denver in English — Creative Writing.
