Saturday, November 1, 2014

In Reply to the Lady's Tears

Love is a plate of onions sliced thin
Straight through to the center
With the green hearts growing,
Wild as sin and tender beyond counting.
Why then are your tears showing
Now that I am packed to go,
Did you think love was a fountain,
Forever damned to overflow?

[Undated poem by Virginia McKinnon Mann.]

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