Thursday, January 31, 2019

The Word Is Valentine

The word is you’re leaving
The word given forever
And then taken away
 
The promise of the immortal
Was just finally too tempting
An offer not to be refused
 
The word comes back
To be forgotten again
But not what the word has made
 
In the air it’s still sounding
The reformation of a growl or purr
Into a word like ‘leaving’
 
With its great e-e-e sound
Like a kind of keening
That never leaves

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