What Then? After Rilke

And when you agree

To the wild

And the dangerous habit of Love

You’d make of yourself

 

What then?

 

What

Of the awkward Swan

As the night glides in

His

 

Clumsy gait

Her

Uncertain returning

To ground?

 

(from The Lawnmower Poems, Foothill Publishing, 2019)

 

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