July 22, 2003

Old-Fashioned Requited Love

I have ransacked the encyclopedias
And slid my fingers among topics and titles
Looking for you.

And the answer comes slow.
There seems to be no answer.

I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it.

Or - the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube
in summer sunlight - maybe he will know.

- - The great American poet, Carl Sandberg, who died this day in 1967,

Via the newsletter of Today in Literature.

Posted by Vanderleun at July 22, 2003 11:03 AM | TrackBack
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