March 7, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is fear of love.
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A poem about the calm after a tempestuous breakup:
The apartment is dark.
I like it that way.
Through unshaded
windows
I look across the
street.
People there have lights
on.
I see them through
curtains.
A muscular young man
Washes dishes with
his wife.
A woman drinks beer
In the blue light of
TV.
On the top floor a
mother,
A daughter, a
daughter:
Three without men.
Next door an old
couple
Smothers the fear
Of who will die
first.
In a singles bar
I meet a woman
And have nothing to
say.
Too many times
I have said the same
things.
I watch here in
darkness,
In the peace of
aloneness,
And think about me,
And think about you.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Fear of Love
3/7: The Apartment Is Dark
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