What if They’re Like Me?
“What if they’re free, getting the best parts of me, and the rest, even better. Pieces of their own making.”
“What if they’re free, getting the best parts of me, and the rest, even better. Pieces of their own making.”
“Birds will peck apart my life, scraps blown like snowy leaves, blue-veined paper reduced to pulp by early winter rain.”
“what if you never said sorry for taking up the space you hold, you no longer nursed your pain like a fever-high toddler.”
“She is the daughter who heard the news. Whose eyes began to well, but after eighteen years is all out of tears”
“One night is all it took, two people fall in a flash, one instant freezes the moment”
“Still as a rock. Another shadow thundered over, And another and another until the very earth quaked.”
This collection of love poems spans a wide range of styles and periods, reflecting the diverse ways love has been contemplated and celebrated through the ages.
“pugnacious white hairs sprouted decades deep on farm hands tangle with spring air….”
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