> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andyposner.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# I Remain Marvelously Alive
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/i-remain-marvelously-alive/
- Published: 2020-06-20T13:44:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T17:36:06.000Z
- Description: In the creak and give of floorboards, hollow of trees felled by storms, fists of despots, palms of departing lovers, click of deadbolts, swing of doors;
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry

"*One life is not enough.* 
*I'd like to live twice on this sad planet,* 
*In lonely cities, in starved villages...*” – Czesław Miłosz\*

In the creak and give of floorboards,  
hollow of trees felled by storms,  
fists of despots, palms of departing lovers,  
click of deadbolts, swing of doors;

In the purr and pant of aging pets,  
hush and sweep of forgotten tombs,  
sway of ships at night,  
darkening of sunset in quiet waters;

In the sweet-smelling rot of discarded apples,  
shimmer of heat rising from denuded lands,  
diesel roar of trains disappearing in distance,  
tremor of aftershocks, of cello strings;

In the splatter of blood, of ink, of midnight rains,  
buzz and throb of wasps, of poked-at hives,  
opening of veins, rip and tear of mail,  
lick and seal of unsent letters, locked away;

In the reading of wills, of eulogies, of elegies,  
caw and cry of wild, dangerous birds-of-prey,  
tantrums of children, sadness of hospice  
strange warp and bend of space-time—

in all this, what foreboding and thrill!

There are myriad ways to die  
yet I remain—marvelously—alive.