By kevin urenda
Date: 3 March 2000
poème du jour
shedding the patterns
of familiar love
like a thread bare
well-loved shirt
or a second skin
I am again ready
to fall for you
for the first time
every time
for all time
within these words
I shed like unwanted
tears and beyond
past the last shelf
of a burgeoning library where
I'll always be checking you out
like the book I keep
hidden there in plain sight
3/3/00
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