This was once a love poem by Jane Hirshfield

[peccare]

This was once a love poem, before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short, before it found itself sitting, perplexed and a little embarrassed, on the fender of a parked car, while many people passed by without turning their heads. It remembers itself dressing as if for a great engagement. It remembers choosing these shoes, this scarf or tie

Comments

[evilstorm]

Guh.

[cariad_me_home]

I love this, thanks!

[beautyofgrey]

Amazing, thank you.

[treelife]

I love it. Thank you.

[page_runner]

Me too :) Normally I don't comment on poems, I think its funny that we both chose this one!

[treelife]

Yeah...it takes a special poem to catch my eye. Often I don't really read them unless the first couple lines are very intriguing. I do love paragraph poems though.

[padaviya]

Lovely :)