Love Is
Love Is - Mervyn Morris
Love Is
a giving
& a measured taking
amputation
re-creating
everlasting
interface
a prison
& an open space
a teasing glimpse
of holy grail
a generator
that can fail
the naked jugular
the knife
the torsion
balance in my life
from I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2006), copyright Mervyn Morris 2006, used by permission of the author and the publisher.