RELAPSE
In the deep swelter of a jagged heat, I
thought I'd remember something of you.
Alas, nothing came to the fore. There was,
precisely not a moment when I could
even recall your face. I can remember
everything else - the smallest, most stupid
moments - but not you. Why?
Must I think on this forever?
-
Can your shadow spite my face?
You, whom I almost loved in absence,
thought about in swaddling clothes
like a bundled new infant getting
nothing but love? No, this cannot be.
It is all too foolish, too smart, too
striking, too dumb, too touching,
too numb.
In the deep swelter of a jagged heat, I
thought I'd remember something of you.
Alas, nothing came to the fore. There was,
precisely not a moment when I could
even recall your face. I can remember
everything else - the smallest, most stupid
moments - but not you. Why?
Must I think on this forever?
-
Can your shadow spite my face?
You, whom I almost loved in absence,
thought about in swaddling clothes
like a bundled new infant getting
nothing but love? No, this cannot be.
It is all too foolish, too smart, too
striking, too dumb, too touching,
too numb.
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