Thursday, December 6, 2018

I Love You by Jenny George


I Love You
 
Her eyes were mostly shut. She didn’t speak.
The sun’s slow exile crossed the wall above the bed.  
 
But once, when I bent to feed her a drop
of morphine from the little plastic beak,  
 
her hand shot up and gripped my arm. She looked right at me.
When she said the words, it sounded like she meant: Don’t leave me.  
 
From the very first, we love like this: our heads turning
toward whatever mothers us, our mouths urgent  
 
for the taste of our name.


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