[“Show me you are not the light I called to / but the blackness behind it.” – Louise Glück]
Was that first rush of madness hers, or mine? Yours, she says; now I’m just like you.
But how could I love you if I had not answered your call, that first time, your invitation to share the calling darkness of your mind?
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Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life from the ancient Greek poet (originally published as a chapbook by Silkworms Ink).
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