Poems January 2011
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.
This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 29 Number 5, on page 35
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