Love Poem by Linda Pastan

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Love Poem

I want to write you
a love poem as headlong
as our creek
after thaw
when we stand
on its dangerous
banks and watch it carry
with it every twig
every dry leaf and branch
in its path
every scruple
when we see it
so swollen
with runoff
that even as we watch
we must grab
each other
and step back
we must grab each
other or
get our shoes
soaked we must
grab each other

Linda Pastan

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John Tiong Chunghoo (9/29/2006 12:13:00 AM)
that is just what happens and we are pulled into the poem. linda love it.

John Kay (3/12/2006 2:59:00 PM)
Linda...loved the way this poem moved, but I didn't like the repetition of grabbing at the end. I liked the wet shoes image, but it may not have enough urgency about like the grabbing. The poem is not ending on a big, new, urgent image, which I expected. Otherwise, nice work.

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