Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a crazy world to see...
Andy Williams
Romantic love, longing, desire, the electric charge between two people. 18 poems live in this room.
Every poem gathered beneath this lyric.
No. 98
One day, on a corner, waiting for the light to change,
One day, on a corner, waiting for the light to change, on a walk back home— she'll look quickly back up at you,
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No. 114
She wrote
She wrote a 10-page short story where you knew she saw you.
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No. 13
Remember the feeling
You look down At your wedding shoes, from so long ago, Those deep blue
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No. 16
The painting of paradise
Yesterday, through my translucent looking glass I watched, from the deepest recesses of my desire A girl, who in a Brooklyn bath
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No. 20
Fill the shape
One day, you'll watch a friend receive The help you never knew to ask for. Please, don't let that fissure
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No. 33
Coruscate off her skin
One day you'll echo the never-ending Structures you built as a child In a meticulously conceived sanctuary,
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No. 34
That syncopated rhythm
Listen closely to The hole within yourself, So shapeless and so vast,
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No. 38
What happens next
The flame begins to burn In the palace of imagination, surrounded by Thousands of books, millions of words,
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No. 49
The domino cascade
How can you enhance the vision of their goodness As clearly as
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No. 67
She appeared like a sparkling shimmer
She appeared like a sparkling shimmer From the glow of the purple crystal chandelier,
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No. 71
How special it is when you find the
How special it is when you find the unexpected vessel that awakens the dormant passion
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No. 74
You touched the cloud
Butterflies and secret sparks in long glittering hallways Butter cake and a
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No. 75
Or did you stay on the floor?
She disappeared down the hallway, And you watched her close the door. You walked back into your apartment
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No. 97
The argument against war
To dance beneath the moonlight with ghosts across the still lake and take your place among them—
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No. 102
Off the Avenue
Oh, how I wished I could have been driving Straight to you, on the long highway On those lonely, dark nights
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No. 104
The high-pitched call
The high-pitched call that escaped your chapped lips into the nighttime winter wind,
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No. 110
Bougainvillea
I watched her hair catch fire On the promontory. My heart burns in the twin chestnut flames
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No. 117
Hold fast the ether
We met across the oval, where words spun and whirled in the air like music.
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