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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