Sweet Double, Talk-Talk [iv.]

Catherine Barnett

 

iv.

I know agape means both dumbly
open and love not the kind of love
that climbed the stairs to you.

 
From The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett. Copyright © 2012 by Catherine Barnett. Published by Graywolf Press. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

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