Poem by Linda Pastan

Hunger

In the battle between
hunger and
​thirst
​
thirst may win.
And yet the song
of the empty belly
​
fills the air
with its plaintive
notes.

There are
only losers
here.

Linda Pastan’s 14th book of poems, Insomnia, was published in October of 2015. In 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement. Almost An Elegy will be published by Norton in 2022

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