“Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing” by Linda Gregg

Submitted by Laura Hutelmyer

Laura Hutelmyer is the Electronic Resources and Special Acquisitions coordinator for Falvey Memorial Library.

“Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing” is a poem from Gregg’s poetry collection In the Middle Distance, her 6th book.

If you’re interested in reading more by Gregg, you can check out two of her poem collections here at Falvey Memorial Library:
In the Middle Distance
Too Bright To See

You can also listen to Gregg speak briefly about her approach to writing and read one of her other poems here.

“Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing”
By Linda Gregg

I remember all the different kinds of years.
Angry, or brokenhearted, or afraid.
I remember feeling like that
walking up a mountain along the dirt path to my broken house on the island.
And long years of waiting in Massachusetts.
The winter walking and hot summer walking.
I finally fell in love with all of it:
dirt, night, rock and far views.
It’s strange that my heart is as full
now as my desire was then.