#marilyn hacker

I am tied in this garden by thousands of vines, by the venomous perfume of lovely sentences.

“You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.”

Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one word will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I’ve cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.