Poetry in Motion
New York
The Lovers
Timothy Liu
The Lovers
I was always afraid
of the next card
the psychic would turn
over for us—
Forgive me
for not knowing
how we were
every card in the deck.
"The Lovers" from Don’t Go Back to Sleep © 2014 by author. Reprinted by permission of Saturnalia Books. Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers (2001) © Nancy Spero, NY.
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