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Elsa Gidlow: Chance

Strange that a single white iris
Given carelessly one slumbering spring midnight
Should be the first of love,
Yet life is written so.

May 26, 2023 · 6 Comments

Richard Feynman: Letter to Arline

I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you.

March 25, 2023 · 6 Comments

Amy Lowell: A Decade

When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

March 3, 2023 · 6 Comments

Edward Harkness: Two Rondeaux

Each time we kiss, love, it’s the first kiss.
The others? Gone. Some I well recall. 
More and more I repeated myself. Even this 
note to sparrows, willows, summer and fall.

February 23, 2023 · Leave a comment

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: One Day

Love Song for the Newly Divorced

January 21, 2023 · 11 Comments

Elsa Gidlow: Constancy

My sister, I keep faith with love, not lovers.

September 30, 2022 · Leave a comment

Dawn Potter: The Unicorn Is in Captivity and No Longer Dead

Which do I like better, someone asks, fork or spoon?
And I reply, That’s not a question for Thursday.
Ask me instead how I lost my virginity,

September 26, 2022 · 3 Comments

Elsa Gidlow: A Happy Song

Heaped sweets and a treasure
For a new sin to play with,
To pass a night and day with––
Heaped sweets for a pleasure.

August 12, 2022 · 1 Comment

Neil Shepard: Mating Behaviors of Storks, Egrets, Humans

We’re out of love again and wandering
with other birdwatchers over the cedar shakes,
spying on spring nesting sites where great
migrations end and settle into familiar patterns
of rearing and weaning.

August 9, 2022 · 3 Comments

Abayomi Animashaun: History Lesson

On the wall is a map of places, the so-called explorers
— Mungo Park and the rest of them —
Discovered. But did they know
Of my longing to kiss you tonight?

August 2, 2022 · Leave a comment

Mary Jane White: Lindeman

you led me alone
into the sandhills, told me how you were named
for the lindens that grow like smaller oaks
or elms in Europe’s parks

July 20, 2022 · 2 Comments

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died

June 24, 2022 · Leave a comment

Ruth L. Schwartz: Love Letters from the Late Edge

two women, neither of us young, one of us frankly old,
walking our joy like a large animal
around a city lake

June 13, 2022 · 7 Comments

Bill Knott: Sonnet

The way the world is not
astonished at you
it doesn’t blink a leaf
when we step from the house

June 9, 2022 · Leave a comment

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