and if I were to say I love you and I do love you and I say it now and again and again would you say parataxis would you see the world revolves anew its axis you

From Same Life by Maureen McLane. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright © 2008 by Maureen McLane. All rights reserved.

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Poems by This Author

Horoscope by Maureen N. McLane Again the white blanket Passage I by Maureen N. McLane little moth Populating Heaven by Maureen N. McLane If we belonged What I'm Looking For by Maureen N. McLane

Further Reading

Poems of Queer Experience Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree by D. A. Powell Antique by Arthur Rimbaud Blue by May Swenson Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] by Walt Whitman elegy for kari edwards by Julian T. Brolaski Elegy in Joy [excerpt] by Muriel Rukeyser He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman Langston Blue by Jericho Brown Lullaby by W. H. Auden Queer by Frank Bidart Starlight by William Meredith The Embrace by Mark Doty The Hug by Thom Gunn The Next Table by C. P. Cavafy Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] by Marilyn Hacker Poems About Love Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 by John Milton A Ditty by Sir Philip Sidney A Drinking Song by W. B. Yeats Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden Credo by Matthew Rohrer Dear Tiara by Sean Thomas Dougherty Dependants by Paul Farley Elegy in Joy [excerpt] by Muriel Rukeyser Epithalamium by Matthew Rohrer How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning I Love You by Sara Teasdale I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay In Passing by Stanley Plumly Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi June Light by Richard Wilbur Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lullaby by W. H. Auden Midwinter Day [Excerpt] by Bernadette Mayer Miss Sally on Love by Shara McCallum My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare Ode, Aubade by Greg Wrenn somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings Sonnets on Love XIII by Jean de Sponde The Love Unfeigned by Geoffrey Chaucer To Dorothy by Marvin Bell True Love by Robert Penn Warren True Love by Barry Gifford Two Loves by Lord Alfred Douglas What Was Told, That by Jalalu'l-din Rumi When You are Old by W. B. Yeats Who Shall Doubt by George Oppen Whom You Love by Joseph O. Legaspi Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249) by Emily Dickinson Yours by Daniel Hoffman Contemporary Love Poems Coda by Marilyn Hacker corydon & alexis, redux by D. A. Powell Credo by Matthew Rohrer Epithalamium by Matthew Rohrer Fons by Pura López-Colomé Footprint on Your Heart by Gary Lenhart Hey You by Adrian Blevins It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi Long Distance II by Tony Harrison Love Poem by Graham Foust My Heart by Kim Addonizio Rime Riche by Monica Ferrell San Antonio by Naomi Shihab Nye The Ear is an Organ Made for Love by E. Ethelbert Miller The Ecstasy by Phillip Lopate The Embrace by Mark Doty The Emperor by Matthew Rohrer The Kiss by Stephen Dunn The Love-Hat Relationship by Aaron Belz The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem by Amy Uyematsu To Dorothy by Marvin Bell When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman