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Article: Love Recidivus.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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LOVE RECIDIVUS
Whatever it may be, we may suppose
It is not love, for love must leave its trace
like contraband seized and displayed in rows;
is not sufficient reason to erase
the careful lives we have so far lived through--
there is no call for us to undermine
the walls we've built; no need to think anew
of all the chains and choices that define
us still. And yet for all our fine intent
a single touch ignites the night and tries
resolve past all resisting. What ...
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... ... to the brain that grew in tandem with the thumb: To tell exactly how we came from clay is easy. But explain the place inside the cranium where all that clay turns into flame. Deborah Warren received the 2001 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award.
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