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Of Time and Love

Ralph Monday

There was a time when I thought I knew
What love is. Who knows if it was adolescent
immaturities, believing a rose was love,
chocolates for the girl, secret notes passed in
class, phone calls about nothing that went on
for hours.

            Those times have long passed with
            two divorces, the second wife’s son who
            tried to kill me, but metaphysics of
            desire still remains like Sappho’s yearnings.

So much written about love, numerous poems,
song after sappy song, yet it still defies definition
the way that pornography cannot be defined, but
everyone knows what it is when seen—or felt,
or touched, or heard, or thought.

            Love is not a rose or forgiveness for the
            unforgivable—not adolescent heat in the
            backseat—or a crooned song by a 1940s
            diva at Christmas.

Perhaps it is no more than self-looking into
Narcissus’ forest pool, finding there the
obsessive bait, harpoon in the blood, angled
parasite from the genetic past, seeking a symbiosis
of tangled roots like the shining serpent shedding
its shadow for the final time.



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