A Very Short Love List
A row of buttons on a dress.
A book next to the roses
On the nightstand.
A bird on the windowsill,
Peeking through
The carelessly drawn blinds.
A man and a woman
Talking fast
But softly as monks.
A very white winter in Harlem,
Many years ago.
by Tim Suermondt
Editor’s Note: Imagery conveys a story fraught with history in this poem. The reader’s experience fills in the gaps (and in doing so, we discover that those gaps are deliberate trails into a narrative rich with meaning).
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