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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Past Loves

          


For the sin of lovelessness I've wandered
places inhabited by invisible people
from one desolation to another desolation

drowning athirst in love unwarranted
and hence unrecognized, stumbling into
random blows and clinches, desperate

gropings and grapplings beset by my
inheritance of guilt:

I know them now, these ancestors
who loved with this same heedless ignorance
holding each other like broken dolls

and I know the harms I've done
in sleepwalking imitation.

Penance was due
and done; when I see,
there's no more need
to be so blind.

Forrest Curo

July 27, 2021



 

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