There Comes the Strangest Moment
There comes the strangest moment in your life, when everything you thought before breaks free— what you relied upon, as ground-rule and as rite looks upside down from how it used to be.…
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I Never Want To Go When It's Time
I never want to go when it’s time to go; I want to hang back, to read a book, or make another line rhyme. I always think that what I really need is there in the place that I am leaving, not waiting in the new place I ached to go to. I go, but with a kind of grieving,…
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Care II
I’ve sent you a poem; your first glimpse of how, in that other world, I speak. It is a life-line thrown to you, since things have changed between us. Though I feel weak wondering how you will be struck by this, I’m strong with the sense of this new thing, this freak…
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Remember
when you’re lonely in your room, and the year is hovering in your eyes; remember, when he calls you late and sorry, how the tears had made you wise; how it happened again and again, pushing you out and pulling you in, and how his words were wind that fanned your fears;…
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Reading Someone Else's Love Poems
is, after all, all we’ve ever done for centuries—except write them—but what a strange thing it is, after all, rose-cheeks and sun- hair and lips, and underarms, and that little gut I love to nuzzle on, soft under-belly—oops— that wasn’t what I meant to talk about;…
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