Your loneliness and mine Added together Make one ingenuous loneliness. No one will believe this but you. When you were here it rained each night. Each morning found you Beached against me like an irrefutable ark. @3Vast, self-conscious island@1, You said with eyes closed. When you left, your pairs Of slight nocturnal sighs went with you. I listen to my ears ring now, The sound of me getting nowhere. Though I'm telling you there are mountains so distant It hurts to look. If there are two kinds of loving, As everybody thinks he knows, Two kinds of dying, Then one of each is easy, Like the sadness that weds us. There are two ways to be alone: One is filled with sunlight And the yellowing aspen turn it, by alchemy, Into themselves. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD DRIVING INTO LARAMIE by JAMES GALVIN NOTES FOR THE FIRST LINE OF A SPANISH POEM by JAMES GALVIN JOY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SERVICE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TRIFLE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |