Love Poem

When you fall in love,

you jockey your horse

into the flaming barn.

You hire a cabin

on the shiny Titanic.

You tease the black bear.

Reading the Monitor,

you scan the obituaries

looking for your name.

This poem appeared in White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006.

10.09.2026

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