Thursday, November 22, 2012

Not Love You?

Love you? How could I not?
How could I learn to train my heart to pale,
to turn away from beauty?
To shrivel in its thumping to a shadow of life,
to form the word NO
for the heart is made to dream,
the heart IS dreams
and my heart dreams and calls and cries and swoops for you

Clifton Goodwin
Autumn Twenty Twelve

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