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Autumn/ November 1968 • Vol. XXX No. 5 • Poetry |

Loving

I tried to find you in the tongues of my body,
along the walls of my heart,
baled in the cords of my eyes, or bound
in my brain’s knot.

I knew you were there, you must have been, from my sap
gone tropic, bending after the leave of the light
that was in me, in me, growing me up to be
myself entire in my completed body.

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