Preferred Citation: Sutzkever, A. A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3z7/

 
Blind Milton58 (1954–1962)

From Myself to Myself

How long is the road from myself to myself?
Sometimes half a moment,
That's all. Here is wholeness. But a serpent
On the path between the two gates.
And sometimes seven worlds, seven frosts long
Is the short walk from yourself to yourself.

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Blind Milton58 (1954–1962)
 

Preferred Citation: Sutzkever, A. A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3z7/