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Love Poem
by Bill Manhire
Love Poem - Bill Manhire
This is the first poem in my very first book, and it's called 'Love Poem'.
Love Poem
There is no question
of choice, but it takes
a long time.
Love’s vacancies, the eye
& cavity, track
back to embraces
where the spine bends
& quietens
like smoke in the earth.
Your tongue, touching on song,
darkens all songs. Your touch
is almost a signature.
from Collected Poems (Carcanet , 2001), © Bill Manhire 2001, used by permission of the author and Carcanet Press Ltd.