Love Poem no. 1

(Source)

As Valentine's Day approaches, I'll be sharing a few of my favorite poems, books, movies and assorted cultural artifacts about love, in no particular order.

Dedication

By Franz Wright

 

  It’s true I never write, but I would gladly die with you.

  Gladly lower myself down alone with you into the enormous mouth

  that waits, beyond youth, beyond every instant of ecstasy, remember:

  before battle we would do each other’s makeup, comb each other’s

                   hair out

 

(Read the rest here.)

Source: Poetry (December 2009).

via the Poetry Foundation