For Lloyd Poem by Jacqui Thewless

You didn’t believe me at the time:
how could I be so fond?
But it’s true, I said:
poets are always
falling in love for life with a single line

and I wanted the others
to hear who you were
as I’d heard you that year
by phone so I
wrote the haiku
of the story, three times over

losing those beautiful
spoken links
to distance
between then and

later
began to
file your own poems to me
by email;

it was easier to show them
even though nobody could know then
I really loved You.