I could love you
as dry roots love rain.
I could hold you
as branches in the wind.
brandish petals.
Forgive me for speaking
so soon.
...
Let your heart look
On a white seaspray
and be lonely.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star.
~by Carl Sandburg
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