Once I wrote songs
for you, like Sappho stripped
strings raw for her youthful muse.

Now, age holds my blood slow,
so that the cold of bodies
enters me from across the room.

I shiver and write with scraps
all that there is left to write
of my life away from you.

11/08/2006

Posted on 11/08/2006
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