Farewell

Awakening alone,
Proceeding on my own
To negotiate the day
As I’d done too long to say—

Now that I had a lover
That life of mine was over.
My next would be with her,
And doubtless happier—

Though fondness, truth to tell,
Inflected my farewell
To the solitude that I
Had been companioned by.

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Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion (Ivan R. Dee) won the 2008 New Criterion Poetry Prize.

Topics:Poetry